Please find a call for participation to the seventh RIAO conference. RIAO 2004 will take place in Avignon "Vaucluse", France from April 26 to April 28. We look forward to seeing you there. Sincerely, G. Grefenstette, co-chair of the program committee information@xxxxxxxx |
RIAO'2004 |
Coupling Approaches, Coupling Media and Coupling Languages
for Information Retrieval
PROGRAM
University of Avignon (Vaucluse $(H France)
26-28 Avril 2004
The seventh RIAO conference is organised by:
CENTRE DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES D'INFORMATIQUE
DOCUMENTAIRE
(C.I.D., France)
in collaboration with the LIA (Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon - Université d'Avignon)
with technical support from l'IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse)
in cooperation with the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) LIST
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 conference will cover 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. Combination of techniques from disparate domains, will 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.
RIAO'2004 presents recent scientific progress in these areas with oral presentations, demonstrations of research prototypes, as well as presenting a selection of innovative products present on the market.
RIAO (which stands for Recherche d'Information Assistée par Ordinateur ) is organized every three years since 1985. Previous RIAO Conferences were held in Grenoble, France (1985), at MIT in Cambridge Massachussetts. USA (1988), in Barcelona, Spain (1991), in New York USA (1994), at Mc Gill, Montreal (1997), and at the Collège de France, Paris (2000) The conference is organized by the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D.) in conjunction with various partners.
This year's conference presents research from 18 different countries, two invited keynote speeches, 13 sessions of oral presentations, a poster session and a session dedicated to cultural applications. The 51 papers presented, 16 posters, and various presentations will give an overview of the state-of-the-art in this rapidly changing domain.
Concurrent to the scientific presentations, a wide variety of innovative applications will be presented by an international selection of companies. Each application was chosen by an Applications Committee using the same criteria of quality and originality as the Scientific Committee for the written scientific communications.
| Monday, April 26 | |
| 08:00 - 9:30 | Registration |
| 09:30 - 10:15 | Welcome from officials |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Invited speaker |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 - 12:35 | Session 1: Indexing Video, Sound and Images |
| The Fmschlar-News-Stories System: Personalised Access to an Archive of TV News | |
| Video Summarization Based on User-Defined Constraints and Preferences | |
| The TREC VIdeo Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID): A Case Study and Status Report | |
| CIMWOS: A Multimedia Retrieval System based on Combined Text, Speech and Image Processing | |
| 12:35 - 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 - 15:25 | Session 2: Searching across Languages |
| Multilingual Information Retrieval with Asian Languages | |
| Transitive CLIR Models | |
| Interlingual Indexing across Different Languages | |
| Crossing Languages in Text Retrieval via an Interlingua | |
| Multilingual document clusters discovery | |
| 15:25 - 15:55 | Break / Demonstrations |
| 15:55 - 16:55 | Session 3: Searching and Ontologies |
| Ontologies as Background Knowledge to Explore Document Collections | |
| Learning + Generalization/Specialization ; Relations between Concepts - Application for Automatically Building Thematic Document Hierarchies | |
| Coupling Information Extraction and Data Mining for Ontology Learning in PARMENIDES | |
| 16:55 - 17:55 | Session 4: Niche Web Systems |
| Combinaison de classifieurs pour le filtrage de documents multi-midias ` caracthre choquant ou dangereux | |
| Coupling Niche Browsers and Affect Analysis | |
| Bilingual PRESRI - Integration of Multiple Research Paper Databases - | |
| 17:55 - 18:15 | Cultural heritage applications |
| Un musie virtuel pour les spicialistes | |
| Fabritius : base de donnies multilingue en ligne pour les Musies royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique | |
| 18:30 | Cocktail in the "Salle de la grande audience" of the Popes' Palace |
| Tuesday, April 27 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Invited speaker |
| 09:45 - 11:05 | Session 5: Different Methods and Languages for Question Answering |
| ASKMi: A Japanese Question Answering System based on Semantic Role Analysis | |
| A Pattern Based Approach to Factoid and Definition Question Answering | |
| Question-Answer Matching : Complementary Methods | |
| MOQA - Meaning-Oriented Question-Answering | |
| 11:05 - 11:40 | Break / Demonstrations |
| 11:40 - 13:00 | Session 6: Image Processing |
| Image Understanding using Domain Knowledge | |
| Improving CBIR systems by integrating semantic features | |
| Automatic generation of natural language description for images. | |
| Costume: A New Feature for Video Content Indexing | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:50 | Session 7 (parallel session): Cooperative Searching andusers |
| Group Memory Based on the Task Information | |
| BINGO! and DAFFODIL: Personalized Exploration of Digital Libraries and Web Sources | |
| The Generalized Web Surfer | |
| Improving Ontology-Based User Profiles | |
| 14:30 - 15:50 | Poster session (parallel session) |
| OWL-based reasoning with retractable inference | |
| Browsing and searching e-encyclopaedias | |
| An Experiment with Ontology Mapping using Concept Similarity | |
| Coupling OWL with MPEG-7 and TV-Anytime for Domain-specific Multimedia Information Integration and Retrieval | |
| Speaker segments regroupment | |
| Rich Document Representation for Document Clustering | |
| Audio Documents Analysis And Indexing: Entropy And Dynamism Criteria | |
| Suivi du Locuteur dans des Discours Multimidia | |
| Information retrieval on mixed written and spoken documents | |
| Modilisation de connaissances et fouille dinformations par la cartographie dynamique : application de veille technologique avec Matheo Analyzer | |
| Improving the Precision of a Closed-Domain Question-Answering System with Semantic Information | |
| Retrieving what's relevant in audio and video: statistics and linguistics in combination | |
| StreamSageToward Tacit Information Retrieval | |
| Automating Indexing of Classes and Conferences | |
| Indexation automatique de documents par combinaison d'analyses statistiques et terminologiques structuries | |
| Information Retrieval and Extraction from the Web: the CROSSMARC approach | |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Break / demonstrations |
| 16:10 - 17:30 | Session 8 (parallel session): User Searching, Studies and Aids |
| Subject knowledge, thesaurus-assisted query expansion and search success | |
| Fetch: A Personalised Information Retrieval Tool | |
| Interfaces dynamiques de fouille textuelles | |
| Feedback Mechanisms for a Natural Language Interface: An Application of the Critic Paradigm | |
| 16:10 - 17:10 | Session 9 (parallel session): New views on Relevance |
| Improving the Relevance-based Superimposition model for IR with automatic keyword extraction | |
| Evaluation of Retrieval Systems without Predefined Retrieval Unit | |
| Monitoring user-system performance in interactive retrieval tasks | |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Conference given by Michel Laclotte, Directeur Général honoraire of the Louvre Museum « L'École d'Avignon, Deux Siècles de Peinture » |
| 19:00 | Guided tour of the "Palais des Papes" |
| 20:15 | Conference Dinner |
| Wednesday, April 28 | |
| 09:30 - 10:50 | Session 10: Mono and Multilingual Term Variation |
| Mining textual data through term variant clustering : the TermWatch system | |
| Knowledge Acquisition from Collections of News Articles to Cross-Language Information Retrieval | |
| Chinese character expansion for retrieving Japanese paraphrases | |
| Cross-Language Image Retrieval via Spoken Query | |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Break / demonstrations |
| 11:15 - 12:35 | Session 11: Conceptual, Structural Retrieval, XML |
| Source Code Retrieval using Conceptual Similarity | |
| Multimodal Indexation of Contrastive Structures in Geographical Documents | |
| Integrating XLink and XPath to Retrieve Structured Multimedia Documents in Digital Libraries | |
| Using XML to Query XML - From Theory to Practice | |
| 12:35 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:40 | Session 12: Topic Discovery, Segmentation |
| Summarizing Texts at Various Levels of Detail | |
| Selective Combination of Evidence for Topic Distillation using Document and Aggregate-level Information | |
| Comparing algorithms for French linear segmentation | |
| Tagging Well-known Arabic Names to Support Question-Answering Systems | |
| Unsupervised Learning with Term Clustering for Thematic Segmentation of Texts | |
| 15:40 - 15:50 | Break |
| 15:50 - 17:00 | Session 13: Improving Retrieval |
| Combining Positive and Negative Query Feedback in Passage Retrieval | |
| Latent Semantic Indexing with a Variable Number of Orthogonal Factors | |
| Word Pairs in Language Modeling for Information Retrieval | |
| A Query-based Pre-retrieval Model Selection Approach to Information Retrieval | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Closing session |
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 demonstration spaces.
The selection of the innovative applications and products is not finished. The list of accepted ones will be soon available on the RIAO web site
Applications and products will be chosen among 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 multilingual, 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
Demonstrations will be organized all along the conference and short oral presentations will be held in parallel sessions, Monday afternoon (13:45 - 15:25 and 16:55 - 17:55)
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Registration fees:
- 370 euros for early registration received until April 1, 2004
- 430 euros registration after April 1, 2004
- 320 euros early registration for CID members until April 1, 2004
- 430 euros registration for CID members after April 1, 2004
Registration includes admission to all conference sessions, to prototype and product demonstrations, to coffee breaks, and to the Tuesday night conference dinner. It is possible to reserve extra places at this dinner for 25 euros per person.
Student fees:
- 170 euros for early registration received until April 1, 2004
- 200 euros registration after April 1, 2004
Student registration includes admission to all conference sessions, to prototype and product demonstrations, to coffee breaks, but not to the Tuesday night conference dinner. Students can reserve a place at this dinner for 25 euros per person.
Registration instructions:
Please register using the secured payment facilities found on our web site http://www.riao.org/.
It is also possible to pay by bank transfer to the following account:
Name : CID
Bank : Société Générale
Branch : Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France
Account Number : 000 50 06 5481 Rib 06
Bank Number : 30003
Branch Number : 03120
IBAN : FR76 30003 03120 000500065481 06
BIC : SOGEFRPP
Payment by check in euros will also be accepted. In this case send your check made out the "C.I.D." along with registration information (as found on the web site) to
CID
Congrès RIAO'2004
36 bis rue Ballu
75009 Paris
FranceNote: Registration can be canceled (with a 90% reimbursement of registration fees) until April 5, 2004. After this date no reimbursement will be possible.
Final Registration:
It will also be possible to register and pay registration fees on Sunday evening April 25 at the
Hotel DANIELI
17 rue de la République
84000 Avignon
between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. and on-site on Monday April 26 from 8 a.m. It is nonetheless strongly advised to pre-register in order to avoid long lines the first morning, and to take advantage of the reduced early registration fees before April 1, 2004.
Each participant must check-in on-site before the conference at the University of Avignon, to receive their badge, the printed proceedings of the conference and the final program.
Conference Dinner:
The conference dinner will be held at the:
"Grenier à Sel"
2, rue du Rempart Saint-Lazare,
84000 Avignon
(33) (0) 4 90 27 09 09
http://www.grenieraselavignon.com
A map will be distributed at the conferemce.
Language:
The working language of the conference will be English. In accordance with the French law, it will be possible, nonetheless, to present one's communication in French.
Tutorial :
Google scientists Vibu Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, and Mehran Sahami plan a tutorial on Web Information Retrieval for Sunday before the conference. This tutorial will be held if a sufficient number of people enroll. Details can be found on the RIAO web site - http://www.riao.org
Conference Address:
University of Avignon
74, rue Pasteur
Avignon
Rooms have been reserved in a number of local hotels until April 1st, 2004. We recommend that you reserve a room as early as possible. Avignon is very active at the time of the conference. A hotel list is available on the RIAO web site.
If you are arriving in Paris at the Paris-Roisy Charles de Gaulle airport, you can take a direct high-speed train to Avignon. Check times online at http://www.sncf.com/indexe.htm . A shuttle leaves from the Avignon-TGV station to downtown Avignon.
If you are arriving in Paris at the Orly airport, there are direct flights to Avignon (aéroport national) except on Sundays.
Marseille-Marignane is an international airport situated 70 kms from Avignon. You might find a connection arriving there. If you are planning to come through Marseilles, please notify the conference organizers at informations@xxxxxxxxxx telling us when you are arriving and we might be able to organize a shuttle to Avignon.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@xxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.riao.org
Revision: February 26, 2004