RIAO 2004 Program
  
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 F$(D??(Bschl$(D??(Br-News-Stories System: Personalised Access to an Archive
of TV News
Alan Smeaton, Cathal Gurrin, Hyowon Lee, Kieran McDonald, Noel Murphy,
Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University
 
 Video Summarization Based on User-Defined Constraints and Preferences
Vyacheslav Parshin, Liming Chen, Ecole Central de Lyon, Dept.
Math$(D??(Bmatique-Informatique
 
 The TREC VIdeo Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID): A Case Study and
Status Report
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University Wessel Kraaij, TNO TPD Paul Over,
NIST
 
 CIMWOS: A Multimedia Retrieval System based on Combined Text, Speech
and Image Processing
Harris Papageorgiou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Lason Demiros, Nikos
Hatzigeorgiou, Georges Carayanis, Institute for Language and Speech
Processing (ILSP)
 
12:35 - 13:45 Lunch 
13:45 - 15:25 Session 2: Searching across Languages 
 Multilingual Information Retrieval with Asian Languages
Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel
 
 Transitive CLIR Models
Wessel Kraaij, TNO Franciska de Jong, University of Twente
 
 Interlingual Indexing across Different Languages
Kornel Marko, Udo Hahn, Linguistische Informatik Stefan Schulz,
Philipp Daumke, Medizinische Informatik
 
 Crossing Languages in Text Retrieval via an Interlingua
Udo Hahn, Michael Poprat, Linguistische Informatik Stefan Schulz,
Joachim Wermter, Kronel Marko, Medizinische Informatik
 
 Multilingual document clusters discovery
Benoit Mathieu, Christian Fluhr, Romaric Besan$(D??(Bon, CEA - LIST/LIC2M
 
15:25 - 15:55 Break / Demonstrations  
15:55 - 16:55 Session 3: Searching and Ontologies  
 Ontologies as Background Knowledge to Explore Document Collections
Aussenac Nathalie, Mothe Josiane, IRIT
 
 Learning « Generalization/Specialization » Relations between Concepts
- Application for Automatically Building Thematic Document Hierarchies
Hermine Njike Fotzo, Patrick Gallinari, Lip6
 
 Coupling Information Extraction and Data Mining for Ontology Learning
in PARMENIDES
Myra Spiliopoulou, University of Magdeburg Fabio Rinaldi, University
of Zurich Bill Black, UMIST, Manchester Gian Piero Zarri, CNRS, Paris
 
16:55 - 17:55 Session 4: Niche Web Systems  
 Combinaison de classifieurs pour le filtrage de documents
multi-m$(D??(Bdias $(D??(B caract$(D??(Bre choquant ou dangereux
Bruno Grilheres, EADS S&DE/PSI Rouen Stephan Brunessaux, EADS S&DE
Philippe Leray, PSI Rouen
 
 Coupling Niche Browsers and Affect Analysis
Gregory Grefenstette, Yan Qu, James G. Shanahan, David A. Evans,
Clairvoyance Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 
 Bilingual PRESRI - Integration of Multiple Research Paper Databases -
Hidetsugu Nanba, School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City
University Takeshi Abekawa, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of
Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Manabu Okumura,
Suguru Saito, Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute
of Technology
 
17:55 - 18:15 Cultural heritage applications  
 Un mus$(D??(Be virtuel pour les sp$(D??(Bcialistes
Marie-Fran$(D??(Boise Clergeau, Coll$(D??(Bge de France
 
 Fabritius : base de donn$(D??(Bes multilingue en ligne pour les Mus$(D??(Bes
royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique
Pierre-Yves Desaive, Mus$(D??(Bes 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
Tetsuya Sakai, Yoshimi Saito, Yumi Ichimura, Makoto Koyama, Tomoharu
Kokubu, Toshihiko Manabe, Toshiba Corporate R&D Center
 
 A Pattern Based Approach to Factoid and Definition Question Answering
Horacio Saggion, Mark Greenwood, University of Sheffield
 
 Question-Answer Matching : Complementary Methods
Karine Lavenus, Jens Grivolla, Laurent Gillard, Patrice Bellot, LIA,
Universit$(D??(B d'Avignon, France
 
 MOQA - Meaning-Oriented Question-Answering
Jim Cowie, New Mexico State University, CRL Sergei Nirenburg,
University of Maryland, ILIT Tanya Korelsky, CoGenTex, Inc. Stephen
Helmreich, New Mexico State University, CRL Beno$(D??(Bt Lavoie, CoGenTex,
Inc.
 
11:05 - 11:40 Break / Demonstrations 
11:40 - 13:00 Session 6: Image Processing  
 Image Understanding using Domain Knowledge
Nicolas Zlatoff, Bruno Tellez, Atilla Baskurt, LIRIS
 
 Improving CBIR systems by integrating semantic features
Djamel Brahmi, Djemel Ziou, Universit$(D??(B de Sherbrooke (Canada)
 
 Automatic generation of natural language description for images.
Patrick Hede, Pierre-Alain Mo$(D??(Bllic, Magali Joint, Jo$(D??(Bl Bourgeoys,
Hubert Naets, CEA LIST/LIC2M
 
 Costume: A New Feature for Video Content Indexing
Ga$(D??(Bl Jaffr$(D??(B, Philippe Joly, IRIT
 
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 
14:30 - 15:50 Session 7 (parallel session): Cooperative Searching
andusers
 Group Memory Based on the Task Information
Jonathan Yu, James Thom, RMIT University Leila Alem, CSIRO
 
 BINGO! and DAFFODIL: Personalized Exploration of Digital Libraries
and Web Sources
Martin Theobald, Max-Planck Institut f$(D??(Br Informatik Claus-Peter Klas,
Universit$(D??(Bt Duisburg
 
 The Generalized Web Surfer
Ayman Farahat, Francine Chen, Palo Alto Research Center
 
 Improving Ontology-Based User Profiles
Joana Trajkova, Susan Gauch, University of Kansas
 
14:30 - 15:50 Poster session (parallel session)  
 OWL-based reasoning with retractable inference
Carlo Jelmini, Stephane Marchand-Maillet, Viper Group - University of
Geneva
 
 Browsing and searching e-encyclopaedias
Ruth Wilson, Julie Shortreed, Monica Landoni, University of
Strathclyde
 
 An Experiment with Ontology Mapping using Concept Similarity
Robert Villa, Ruth Wilson, Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde
 
 Coupling OWL with MPEG-7 and TV-Anytime for Domain-specific
Multimedia Information Integration and Retrieval
Chrisa Tsinaraki, Panagiotis Polydoros, Nektarios Moumoutzis, Stavros
Christodoulakis, Lab. of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems
and Applications (MUSIC/TUC)
 
 Speaker segments regroupment
Liming Chen, Aliaksandr Paradzinets, Ecole Centrale de Lyon
 
 Rich Document Representation for Document Clustering
Azam Jalali, Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering,
University of Tehran, Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong in
Dubai
 
 Audio Documents Analysis And Indexing: Entropy And Dynamism Criteria
Liming Chen, Dept. Math$(D??(Bmatiques Informatique, Ecole Centrale de Lyon,
France Eugeny Bovbel, Hanna Lukashevich, Department of Radiophysics,
Byelorussian Denis Mitrofanov, Department of Radiophysics,
Byelorussian State University, Belarus
 
 Suivi du Locuteur dans des Discours Multim$(D??(Bdia
Halim Sayoud, Siham Ouamour, USTHB
 
 Information retrieval on mixed written and spoken documents
Benoit Favre, Patrice Bellot, Jean-Fran$(D??(Bois Bonastre, Laboratoire
d'Informatique d'Avignon
 
 Mod$(D??(Blisation de connaissances et fouille d'informations par la
cartographie dynamique : application de veille technologique avec
Matheo Analyzer
Mylene Leitzelman, H Dou, J Kister, Faculte Sciences et Techniques de
St-J$(D??(Br$(D??(Bme
 
 Improving the Precision of a Closed-Domain Question-Answering System
with Semantic Information
Hai Doan-Nguyen, Leila Kosseim, Department of Computer Science,
Concordia University
 
 Retrieving what's relevant in audio and video: statistics and
linguistics in combination
Anthony Davis,Phil Rennert, Robert Rubinoff, Tim Sibley, Evelyne
Tzoukermann
 
 StreamSageToward Tacit Information Retrieval
Daniel Memmi, IMAG Grenoble
 
 Automating Indexing of Classes and Conferences
Jean-Claude Moissinac, Fran$(D??(Bois Yvon, Slim Ben Hazez, GET/ENST
 
 Indexation automatique de documents par combinaison d'analyses
statistiques et terminologiques structur$(D??(Bes
Lyne Da Sylva, $(D??(Bcole de biblioth$(D??(Bconomie et des sciences de
l'information, Universit$(D??(B de Montr$(D??(Bal
 
 Information Retrieval and Extraction from the Web: the CROSSMARC
approach
Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine Spyropoulos, NCSR "Demokritos",
Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
 
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
Anne Sihvonen, Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere
 
 Fetch: A Personalised Information Retrieval Tool
Innes Martin, Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow
 
 Interfaces dynamiques de fouille textuelles
Javier Couto, Jean-Luc Minel, Laboratoire LaLICC, CNRS-Universit$(D??(B
Paris-Sorbonne
 
 Feedback Mechanisms for a Natural Language Interface: An Application
of the Critic Paradigm
Johannes Leveling, Fern Universit$(D??(Bt in Hagen
 
16:10 - 17:10 Session 9 (parallel session): New views on Relevance  
 Improving the Relevance-based Superimposition model for IR with
automatic keyword extraction
Teruhito Kanazawa, KYA group Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi, National
Institute of Informatics
 
 Evaluation of Retrieval Systems without Predefined Retrieval Unit
Arjen de Vries, CWI Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary
University London
 
 Monitoring user-system performance in interactive retrieval tasks
Liudmila Boldareva, University of Twente (UT) Arjen de Vries, National
Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Djoerd
Hiemstra, University of Twente (UT)
 
17:30 - 18:30 Conference given by Michel Laclotte, Directeur G$(D??(Bn$(D??(Bral
honoraire of the Louvre Museum « L'$(D??(Bcole d'Avignon, Deux Si$(D??(Bcles 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
Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, ERSICOM - Universit$(D??(B de Lyon 3 Eric Sanjuan,
LITA - Universit$(D??(B de Metz
 
 Knowledge Acquisition from Collections of News Articles to
Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Fatiha Sadat, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
 
 Chinese character expansion for retrieving Japanese paraphrases
Takenobu Tokunaga, Yoshiki Tezuka, Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of
Technology
 
 Cross-Language Image Retrieval via Spoken Query
Wen-Cheng Lin, Ming-Shun Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Department of Computer
Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
 
10:50 - 11:15 Break / demonstrations 
11:15 - 12:35 Session 11: Conceptual, Structural Retrieval, XML  
 Source Code Retrieval using Conceptual Similarity
Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke, ILLC, University of Amsterdam
 
 Multimodal Indexation of Contrastive Structures in Geographical
Documents
Antoine Widl$(D??(Bcher, Eric Faurot, Fr$(D??(Bd$(D??(Brik Bilhaut, GREYC - Universit$(D??(B
Caen
 
 Integrating XLink and XPath to Retrieve Structured Multimedia
Documents in Digital Libraries
Zhigang Kong, Mounia Lalmas, Department of Computer Science, Queen
Mary, University of London
 
 Using XML to Query XML - From Theory to Practice
Andrei Broder, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yoelle Maarek, Yosi
Mass, Matan Mandelbrod, IBM Haifa Research Lab
 
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:40 Session 12: Topic Discovery, Segmentation  
 Summarizing Texts at Various Levels of Detail
Marie-Francine Moens, Roxana Angheluta , Rik De Busser, Patrick
Jeuniaux, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
 
 Selective Combination of Evidence for Topic Distillation using
Document and Aggregate-level Information
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow Fidel Cacheda,
University of A Coruna
 
 Comparing algorithms for French linear segmentation
Laurianne Sitbon, Patrice Bellot, LIA, Universit$(D??(B d'Avignon, France
 
 Tagging Well-known Arabic Names to Support Question-Answering Systems
Saleem Abuleil, Chicago State University
 
 Unsupervised Learning with Term Clustering for Thematic Segmentation
of Texts
Marc Caillet, Jean-Fran$(D??(Bois Pessiot, Massih-Reza Amini, Patrick
Gallinari, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6
 
15:40 - 15:50 Break  
15:50 - 17:00 Session 13: Improving Retrieval  
 Combining Positive and Negative Query Feedback in Passage Retrieval
Dkaki Taoufiq, Mothe Josiane, IRIT
 
 Latent Semantic Indexing with a Variable Number of Orthogonal Factors
Georges Dupret
 
 Word Pairs in Language Modeling for Information Retrieval
Carmen Alvarez, Philippe Langlais, Jian-Yun Nie, Universit$(D??(B de
Montr$(D??(Bal
 
 A Query-based Pre-retrieval Model Selection Approach to Information
Retrieval
Ben He, Iadh Ounis, Department of Computing Science, University of
Glasgow
 
17:00 - 17:30 Closing session