Alignment API: Credits

Contributors

Below is the name of individual whose work has contributed to the Alignment API. This can be either because they directly worked on the project or because the released some code that has been integrated within the project.

Jérôme Euzenat
is the main architect and developer of the Alignment API and Server.
Petko Valtchev
was instrumental in fixing many different parts of the code when working on other projects.
Jérôme Pierson
initially developed the WordNet interface and the agent profile for the Alignment Server
Seunkeun Lee
developped the low-level storage layer and the web service profile for the Alignment Server
Raphaël Troncy
fixed the basic implementation of BasicAlignment for n:m alignments.
Arun Sharma
Developed the queryinterface
Giorgos Stoilos and Georges Stamou
offered the code of their "SMOA" paper similarity
Sean Bechhofer and Raphael Voltz
provided some code snippets for using the OWL API
Jarno Elonen
developped a small footprint HTTP server that was embedded in the Alignment Server (in version 2.5-3.0)
Konstantinos A. Nedas
implemented the Hungarian method which is embedded in the Alignment API implementation.
an anonymous person
developped the Levensthein distance implementation that is used in the Alignment API implementation.

Copyright owners

Copyright (C) 2003-2008 INRIA Rhône-Alpes (most of the code)
Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Université de Montréal (parts of the impl/ and ling/ directories)
Copyright (C) 2005 CNR Pisa. (parts of BasicAlignment)
Copyright (C) 2003 The University of Manchester (parts of the util/ directory)
Copyright (C) 2003 The University of Karlsruhe (parts of the util/ directory)
Copyright (C) 2005 Konstantinos A. Nedas (HungarianAlgorithm).
Copyright (C) 2006 CERT. (ISub class in org.ivml.alimo)
Copyright (C) 2006 Seungkeun Lee. (server database access in service/)
Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Orange R&D (parts of JADEFIPAAServProfile)

Acknowledgements

Other people participated in the developement of the Alignment API by providing bug reports, feature requests and patches: Mathieu d'Aquin, Mark Ingram, Antoine Isaac, Kotis Kostas, Sabine Mass;mann, Vassilis Spiliopoulos, Anna Zhdanova

Enablers

See the list of Embedded libraries for the enabling technologies the Alignment API gladly relies on.

Sponsors

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