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-- RIAO'2004 -- Call For Papers and Applications
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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 -
Universit$(D??(B d'Avignon)
and with technical support of IRIT (Institut de Recherche en
Informatique de Toulouse)


CALL FOR PAPERS
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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
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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
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Co-Chairs
  Christian Fluhr, CEA, France
  Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
  Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corp., Pittsburg, Etats Unis

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-B$(D??(Bze, Univ. Avignon, France
Pascale Fung, Scienc. Tech. Univ., Hong Kong
Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan
Jean-Luc Gauvain, LIMSI, France
Edouard Geoffrois, ETCA/DGA, France
Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
Donna Harman, NIST, USA
Ulrich Heid, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany
Eduard Hovy, Univ. S. Carolina, USA
Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI, France
Boris Katz, MIT, USA
Elisabeth Liddy, Univ. Syracuse, USA
Simone Marinai, Univ. Florence, Italy
Jos$(D??(B Martinez, Univ. Nantes, France
Christof Monz, Univ. Amsterdam, Netherland
Frank Nack, CWI, Netherland
Chahab Nastar, LTU, France
Jian-Yun Nie, Univ. Montr$(D??(Bal, Canada
Douglas Oard, Univ. Maryland, USA
J$(D??(Brg 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
Fr$(D??(Bd$(D??(Brique 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, RMIT, Australia
Zhiping Zheng, Univ. Saarland, Germany

(Final list forthcoming)

Applications Committee
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Chair
  Chantal Soul$(D??(B-Dupuy, Universit$(D??(B de Toulouse, France

(Forming Committee)


Organisation and Coordination Committee
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Chair
  Agn$(D??(Bs Beriot, D$(D??(Bl$(D??(Bgu$(D??(Be G$(D??(Bn$(D??(Brale du C.I.D., France

Peter Brodnitz, Ogilvy & Mather, Japan
Jean Louis d'Arc, F$(D??(Bd$(D??(Bration France-Polonge, France
Jean Perri$(D??(Bre, Administrator, Secretary General, C.I.D., France
Saryn Rosart, CASIS, USA
Anne Tabutiaux, Recherche et Diffusion, France

(Final list forthcoming)


Local Organisation Committee
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Aur$(D??(Blia Berri$(D??(Bre, Univ. Avignon, France
St$(D??(Bphane Igounet, Univ. Avignon, France

(Final list forthcoming)


Technical Committee
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President
  Luc Boulianne, C.I.D., Canada

Jonathan Albert, C.I.D., Canada
Max Chevalier, Univ. Toulouse, France
Jean-Jacques Guilbart, Coll$(D??(Bge de France, France
C$(D??(Bline 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


Revision: October 7th, 2003