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RIAO'2004
Coupling Approaches, Coupling Media and Coupling Languages for Information Retrieval
University of Avignon (Vaucluse), France
April 26th-28th, 2004
Organized by:
CENTRE DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES D'INFORMATIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE (C.I.D., France)
in cooperation with the LIA (Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon - Université d'Avignon)
and with technical support of IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Current content-based information management involves many different disciplines. Information must be retrieved from video, from sound, and from images and graphs. Question answering involves both syntax and semantics.
Information classification and filtering involve machine learning and linguistics. In addition, as information technology spreads throughout the world, a wider variety of languages in increasingly complex combinations must be handled.
In response to these evolving needs, RIAO'2004 calls for papers covering the coupling of techniques from different domains to improve information retrieval. RIAO'2004 will present innovative research and developments from all areas of multi-media and multi-language information retrieval. Submissions, demonstrating combination of techniques from disparate domains, may treat retrieval from either a single medium, or across media (indexing one medium for find information in another), or from coupling unstructured and structured information (e.g. exploiting both text and XML structure), or from across languages.
Conference Themes:
Paper submissions should cover one or more of the following themes:
Multimedia information:
* Media-specific indexing techniques (text, speech, fixed and animated images, music) * Indexing composite documents * Querying multimedia documents * Automatically generating text from images and from video * Indexing interactive documents
Multilingual Information:
* Cross-lingual information retrieval, especially involving rarer languages * Automatic construction of bilingual lexicons and term banks * Production of multilingual documents
Man Machine Combinations:
* Coupling search and browsing * Coupling search and semantic mapping (ontologies, SOM, etc) * Multimodal interfaces * Coupling access through structure and through content * Automatic presentation of search aids (e.g. key words, phrases) * Neuroscience applied to information recognition
Architecture for Combined Approaches:
* Architecture for coupling techniques (e.g. Machine Learning for Content Management) * Architecture for coupling media * Architecture for treating multilingual information
Specific Systems Combining Diverse Approaches:
* Systems for Collaborative Information Retrieval * Question answering systems * Multidocument or multilingual summarization * Automatic translation, translation memory
Combining Linguistic and Statistics for Retrieving Content:
* Improved linguistic analyzers in information retrieval * Exploiting linguistic knowledge in search and retrieval * Knowledge Extraction for Information Retrieval * Semantics in indexation and retrieval
Composite Documents and Content:
* Exploiting document structure * Semantic Web, and Ontologies for Full-Scale Information Retrieval * Exploiting new multimedia norms for content-based information management
Evaluation of Combined Approaches:
* User oriented retrieval metrics * New retrieval metrics * Question-Answering systems evaluation metrics
Application domains combining techniques: (descriptions of systems involving the following domains):
* Cultural heritage * Indexation and retrieval of medical images * Applications concerning security * Protection of intellectual property * Protection of minors * E-learning * Technology Watch
Important dates:
First call for papers: October 1, 2003 Deadline for paper submission: December 15, 2003 Notification of acceptance of papers: January 31, 2004 Camera-ready copies due: March 8, 2004 Conference dates: April 26-28, 2004
Submissions should be about 6000 words (about 20 pages, double spaced), include and abstract and be submitted in PDF or PS format.
Submissions for communications will be made electronically on its web site : http://www.riao.org.
The working language of the conference is English. However, in agreement with the French regulations of the "Loi Toubon", submission of papers in French and presentation of papers, if selected, in French will be accepted.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Innovative applications and products related to the conference topics are sought for demonstrations during the three days of the Conference. They will be selected by the international Application committee, on the basis of their innovation and future or present marketability. Selected applications will be given free demonstrations spaces.
Application submissions should cover one or more of the following topics:
* Multimedia indexing and retrieval systems (text, sound, speech, images, video) * Cross-lingual indexing and retrieval systems * Peer-to-peer text search engines * Cooperative Information Retrieval (grids) * Automatic XML structuring of documents * Automatic metadata generation for text, sound, and images, automatic annotators * Automated ontology construction and annotators * Topic detection and event detection in streaming documents, technology watch, strategy watch * Intelligent message filtering * Intelligent text agents * Parent control and anti-spam control by content filtering * E-learning - response interpretation * Document summarisation -- mono or multilingal, mono or multidocument, profile driven * Topic maps * Domain-specific application of information retrieval and multimedia retrieval: medicine, e-commerce, computer-assisted teaching, video production, etc
Important dates:
First call for applications: October 1, 2003 Deadline for application submission: January 31, 2004 Notification for acceptance of applications: March 15, 2004 Conference dates: April 26-28, 2004
Program Committee
Co-Chairs Christian Fluhr Gregory Grefenstette Bruce Croft CEA, France Clairvoyance UMass, Amherst, USA Europe, Africa Asia, Oceania Americas
Catherine Berrut IMAG, France Francine Chen PARC, USA Claude Chrisment IRIT, Toulouse, France Franciska de Jong Univ. Twente, Netherland Claude de Loupy Sinequa, France Renato De Mori Univ. Avignon, France Marc El-Bèze Univ. Avignon, France Pascale Fung Scienc. Tech. Univ., Hong Kong Sadaoki Furui Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan Jean-Luc Gauvain LIMSI, France Edouard Geoffrois ETCA/DGA, France Julio Gonzalo UNED, Spain Donna Harman NIST, USA Ulrich Heid Univ. Stuttgart, Germany Eduard Hovy ISI, Univ. S. California, USA Christian Jacquemin LIMSI, France Boris Katz MIT, USA Elisabeth Liddy Univ. Syracuse, USA Simone Marinai Univ. Florence, Italy José Martinez Univ. Nantes, France Christof Monz Univ. Amsterdam, Netherland Frank Nack CWI, Netherland Chahab Nastar LTU, France Jian-Yun Nie Univ. Montréal, Canada Douglas Oard Univ. Maryland, USA Jörg Ontrup Univ. Bielefeld, Germany Gabriella Pasi Univ. Milano, Italy Marie Theresa Pazienza Univ. Roma, Italy Marc Pic Advestigo, France Jean-Marie Pierrel INALF, France Jean-Marie Pinon INSA Lyon, France Yan Qu Clairvoyance, USA Steve Renals Univ. Sheffield, Great Britain Tetsuya Sakai Toshiba, Japan Frédérique Segond Xerox, France Bernadette Sharp Staffordshire, Great Britain Alan Smeaton Univ. Dublin, Ireland Tokunaga Takenobu Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan Simone Teufel Univ. Cambridge, Great Britain Evelyne Tzoukermann ACM, USA Keith Van Rijsbergen Univ. Glasgow, Great Britain Ross Wilkinson CSIRO, Australia Zhiping Zheng Univ. Saarland, Germany
(Final list forthcoming)
Applications Committee
Chair Chantal Soulé-Dupuy Université de Toulouse, France
(Forming Committee)
Organisation and Coordination Committee
Chair Agnès Beriot Déléguée Générale du C.I.D., France
Peter Brodnitz Ogilvy & Mather, Japan Jean Louis d'Arc Fédération France-Polonge, France Jean Perrière Administrator, Secretary General, C.I.D., France Saryn Rosart CASIS, USA Anne Tabutiaux Recherche et Diffusion, France
(Final list forthcoming)
Local Organisation Committee
Aurélia Barrière Univ. Avignon, France Stéphane Igounet Univ. Avignon, France
(Final list forthcoming)
Technical Committee
President Luc Boulianne C.I.D., Canada
Jonathan Albert C.I.D., Canada Max Chevalier Univ. Toulouse, France Jean-Jacques Guilbart Collège de France, France Cécile Laffaire Univ. Toulouse, France
(Final list forthcoming)
Contact Information
Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D.) 36 bis rue Ballu 75009 Paris France Tel: (33 / 0) 1 42 85 04 75 Fax: (33 / 0) 1 48 78 49 61
Email: information@le-cid.org Web: http://www.le-cid.org
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