From 4f3002f654e2117ffde57a29cc9773a861eec099 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=A9r=C3=B4me=20Euzenat?= <Jerome.Euzenat@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 06:31:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - added warning - updated credit line - improved presentation (incl. OntologyNetwork) --- html/index.html | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/html/index.html b/html/index.html index ca3591ff..35f4d535 100644 --- a/html/index.html +++ b/html/index.html @@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ New Alignment API 4.1. <a href="http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=117">Get it <small>RDF</small> Schema. Aligned entities are identified by their <small>URI</small>s-->.</p> -<p>The Alignment API itself is a <i>Java</i> description of tools for accessing the common format. It defines four main interfaces (Alignment, Cell, Relation and Evaluator) and proposes the following services: +<p>The Alignment API itself is a <i>Java</i> description of tools for + accessing the common format. It defines five main interfaces + (OntologyNetworks, Alignment, Cell, Relation and Evaluator) and proposes the following services: <ul compact="1"> <li>Storing, finding, and sharing alignments;</li> <li>Piping alignment algorithms (improving an existing alignment);</li> @@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ New Alignment API 4.1. <a href="http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=117">Get it <!-- ******************************************************** --> -<p>Here is the new Alignment API and implementation homepage. It is +<p>Here is the Alignment API and implementation homepage. It is hosted by gforge.inria.fr which helps the developement process (by integrating theses pages within the SVN repository for instance).</p> @@ -64,8 +66,18 @@ Santos, <a href="http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/new-submission-alig <!--Jérôme Euzenat, An API for ontology alignment, in: Proc. 3rd conference on international semantic web conference (ISWC), Hiroshima (JP), <i>Lecture notes in computer science</i> 3298:698-712, 2004--> - - +</p> +<p style="font-size: 80%;"> +Please note: The Alignment API is... an API (this may be unfortunate, but it has been named appropriately). +Hence, it is <i>not</i> a matcher. A few examples of trivial matchers are provided with the Alignment API which will indeed match ontologies. +Taking such examples, which can be programmed in a couple of hours, as +real matchers and comparing this with other matchers is meaningless +(only when these matchers are worse than that, this is a meaningful result). +Moreover, mentionning that these systems have been compared with "The +Alignment API" without qualification is <i>not</i> appropriate. So +please, compare your systems with serious competitors (hint: those +which publish papers telling that their systems are good matchers; you +cannot find such a paper about the Alignment API or one of its sample matcher). </p> <h2>Main resources</h2> -- GitLab