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+Ontology alignment API and implementation, version 1.1
+05/11/2004
+
+Copyright (C) 2003-2004 INRIA Rhône-Alpes.
+Copyright (C) 2004 Université de Montréal.
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1
+of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+Read the LICENSE.TXT file for the terms of the GLPL license.
+
+WHAT IS ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT?
+---------------------------
+
+See http://co4.inrialpes.fr/align for the moment.
+
+USING THE ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT API IMPLEMENTATION
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+The Align API implementation requires that you fetch the OWL-API ()
+
+$ setenv CWD `pwd`
+
+Building:
+---------
+
+$ ant jar
+
+Running:
+--------
+
+$ setenv CWD `pwd`
+
+$ java -jar lib/procalign.jar --help
+
+$ java -jar lib/procalign.jar file://localhost$CWD/rdf/onto1.owl file://localhost$CWD/rdf/onto2.owl
+
+$ java -jar lib/procalign.jar file://localhost$CWD/rdf/onto1.owl file://localhost$CWD/rdf/onto2.owl -i fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.impl.method.EditDistNameAlignment -r fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.impl.renderer.OWLAxiomsRendererVisitor -t 0.4
+
+$ java -cp lib/procalign.jar fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.util.ParserPrinter rdf/srcalign.owl
+
+$ java -jar lib/procalign.jar file://localhost$CWD/rdf/onto1.owl file://localhost$CWD/rdf/onto2.owl -a rdf/srcalign.owl
+
+$ java -jar lib/Procalign.jar file://localhost$CWD/rdf/edu.umbc.ebiquity.publication.owl file://localhost$CWD/rdf/edu.mit.visus.bibtex.owl 
+
+$ java -jar lib/Procalign.jar file://localhost$CWD/rdf/edu.umbc.ebiquity.publication.owl file://localhost$CWD/rdf/edu.mit.visus.bibtex.owl -i fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.impl.method.EditDistNameAlignment
+
+$ java -jar lib/Procalign.jar file://localhost$CWD/rdf/edu.umbc.ebiquity.publication.owl file://localhost$CWD/rdf/edu.mit.visus.bibtex.owl -i fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.impl.method.SubsDistNameAlignment -t .4
+
+$ java -cp lib/procalign.jar fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.util.EvalAlign -i fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.impl.eval.PRecEvaluator file://localhost$CWD/aligns/bibref.owl file://localhost$CWD/aligns/BLA 
+
+Using with JWNL (Wordnet)
+-------------------------
+
+- Wordnet 2.0 should be installed
+- jwnl.jar commons-logging.jar must be in lib.
+- file_properties.xml must be in current directory
+
+$ java -jar lib/procalign.jar file://localhost$CWD/rdf/edu.umbc.ebiquity.publication.owl file://localhost$CWD/rdf/edu.mit.visus.bibtex.owl -i fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.ling.JWNLAlignmentTest -o aligns/JWNL.owl
+
+LAST RELEASE
+------------
+
+The last release is available from:
+	http://co4.inrialpes.fr/align
+or
+	http://www.inrialpes.fr/exmo/software/ontoalign.html
+
+CVS ACCESS
+----------
+
+See http://co4.inrialpes.fr/align for CVS Access.
+
+DOCUMENTATION
+-------------
+
+The best documentation can be found on the web site above.
+
+FILES
+-----
+
+README.TXT	this file
+LICENSE.TXT	the terms under which the software is licensed to you.
+RELNOTES.TXT	release notes and to-do list
+build.xml	the Ant build file for compiling and testing
+classes/	empty directory for compiling the sources
+distrib/	some files for generating a new jarfile
+dtd/		contains the ontoalign DTDs (and schemas)
+html/		contains some documentation in HTML format
+javadoc/	javadoc API documentation in HTML (not very useful)
+lib/		contains align.jar and other necessary jarfiles
+rdf/		a few samples ontologies to align
+samples/	two example applications
+src/		Java sources of Transmorpher
+