RIAO 2007 - Call for applications still open (until March 16, 2007)

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RIAO 2007 - Call for applications still open (until March 16, 2007)
France	2007-03-12 12:15:42
****Early Registration until April 19, 2007********************* RIAO 2007 Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound) Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Carnegie Mellon University May 30 to June 1, 2007 The RIAO (Research of information assisted by computer) conference is organized every three years, in Europe and North America, by the Center for Advanced Study of Information Systems (CASIS) and the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d’;Informatique Documentaire (CID). The RIAO conferences present recent scientific advances in information retrieval through oral presentations, posters, demonstrations of research prototypes as well as presenting a selection of cutting-edge innovative products.    Preliminary Conference Program WEDNESDAY MAY 30, 2007 Wed 8:00-9:00 a.m.   ;     Registration Wed 9:00-10:00 a.m.   ;     Opening Session Wed 10:00-10:45    a.m.   ; Invited Speaker    Donna Harman – NIST, USA Wed 10:45-11:00    a.m.   ; Break Wed 11:00-12:15    a.m.   ; SESSION 1    VIDEO AND LOG RETRIEVAL Pic-A-Topic: Efficient Viewing of Informative TV Contents on Travel, Cooking, Food and More     Tetsuya Sakai, Toshiba/NewsWatch – Japan, Tatsuya Uehara, Taishi Shimomori,     Makoto Koyama, Mika Fukui, Toshiba –  Japan Multimodal Segmentation of Lifelog Data     Aiden R. Doherty,  Alan F. Smeaton, CDVP, Dublin City University – Ireland,     Keansub Lee, Daniel P.W. Ellis, LabROSA, Columbia University – USA SportsAnno: What Do You Think?     James Lanagan, Alan Smeaton, CDVP, Dublin City University –  Ireland Wed 12:15-01:30 p.m.   ; Lunch Wed 1:30-03:10 p.m.   ;     SESSION 2    SOUND AND MUSIC RETRIEVAL ORCHIVE: Digitizing and Analyzing Orca Vocalizations  ;   George Tzanetakis, Mathieu Lagrange, University of Victoria – Canada,     Paul Spong, Helena Symonds, Orcalab – Canada Optimizations of Local Edition for Evaluating Similarity Between Monophonic Musical Sequences     Pierre Hanna, Pascal Ferraro, LaBRI, Bordeaux 1 University – France Multi-Modal Music Information Retrieval - Visualisation and Evaluation of Clusterings  by Both Audio and Lyrics     Robert Neumayer, Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology – Austria Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Summarization  ;   Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology – Japan Wed 3:10-3:40 p.m.   ;     Break and Demonstrations Wed 3:40-5:40 p.m.   ;     POSTER SESSION 1 Semantic Domains and Supersense Tagging for Domain-Specific Ontology Learning   ;  Davide Picca, University of Lausanne – Switzerland Unified Access to Heterogeneous Data in Cultural Heritage     Marijn Koolen, Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam – Netherlands,     Vincent de Keijzer, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague –  Netherlands,     Nir Nussbaum, University of Amsterdam –  Netherlands An approach to Multi-Lingual Text Summarization  ;   Alkesh Patel, Tanveer Siddiqui, Umashankar Tiwary,     University of Allahabad – India Cross-Media Entity Recognition in Nearly Parallel Visual and Textual Documents   ;  Koen Deschacht, Marie-Francine Moens, Wouter Robeyns, Katholieke     Universiteit Leuven – Belgium Query Refinement based on Topical Term Clustering     Hiromi Wakaki, The University of Tokyo – Japan, Tomonari Masada, Atsuhiro Takasu,     Jun Adachi, National Institute of Informatics, The University of Tokyo – Japan Discriminative Fields for Modeling Semantic Concepts in Video     Ming-yu Chen, Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University – USA Multi-modal Interview Concept Detection for Rushes Exploitation    ; Anan Liu, Tianjin University, Chinese Academy of Sciences – China,  Li Jintao,     Zhang Yongdong, Tang Sheng, Academy of Sciences – China, Yang Zhaoxuan,     Tianjin University, Chinese Academy of Sciences – China Query clustering to decide the best system to use     Désiré Kompaoré, IRIT, Toulouse 3 University – France, Josiane Mothe, IUFM,     IRIT – France, Alain Baccini, Sébastien Dejean, LSP, Toulouse 3 University – France An IE and IR Approach to deal with Geographic Information Scope in Textual Documents     Christian Sallaberry, LIUPPA, Pau University – France, Mustapha Baziz, IRIT, Toulouse     3 University – France, Julien Lesbegueries, Mauro Gaio, LIUPPA, Pau University – France Comprehensible and Accurate Cluster Labels in Text Clustering     Jerzy Stefanowski, Dawid Weiss, Poznan University of Technology – Poland Summarizing non-textual events with 'Briefing' focus     Mohit Kumar, Dipanjan Das, Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University – USA A Robust Linguistic Platform for Efficient and Domain specific Web Content Analysis     Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko, Thierry Poibeau, Sophie Aubin,     Julien Derivière, LIPN, Paris 13 University – France OLAP Dimensions for Multidimensional Document Anlaysis     Franck Ravat, IRIT, Toulouse 1 University – France, Olivier Teste,     Ronan Tournier, IRIT, Toulouse 3 University – France Effectiveness of Rich Document Representation in XML Retrieval     Fahimeh Raja, Mostafa Keikha, Maseud Rahgozar, University of Teheran – Iran     Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong – Dubai Expanding a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments     Anna Ritchie, University of Cambridge – UK, Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Ltd UK,     Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge – UK Wed 5:40-6:30 p.m.   ;     SESSION 3    TEXTUAL QUERIES AND SEARCH 1 Selecting Automatically the Best Query Translation     Pierre-Yves Berger, Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel – Switzerland An Information Retrieval Driven by Ontology: from Query to Document Expansion     Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, IRIT, Toulouse 3 University – France,     Gabriella Pasi, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca – Italy,     Henri Prade, IRIT, Toulouse 3 University – France ________________________________________ THURSDAY MAY 31, 2007 Thu 9:00-9:45 a.m.   ; Invited Speaker    Alan Smeaton – Dublin City University, Ireland Thu 9:45-10:35 a.m.   ; SESSION 4    TEXTUAL QUERIES AND SEARCH 2 Modeling Information Scent: A Comparison of LSA, PMI and GLSA Similarity Measures on Common Tests and Corpora   ;  Raluca Budiu, Christiaan Royer, Peter Pirolli, Palo Alto Research Center – USA Investigating Retrieval Performance with Manually-Built Topic Models     Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst – USA Thu 10:35-11:00 a.m.   ; Break and Demonstrations Thu 11:00-12:40 p.m.   ; SESSION 5    MODELING LANGUAGE AND SEARCH Document frequency and term specificity     Hideo Joho, University of Glasgow – UK, Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield – UK Context Based Word Prediction for Texting Language     Sachin Agarwal, Shilpa Arora, Carnegie Mellon University – USA Combining linguistic indexes to improve the performances of information retrieval systems: a machine learning based solution     Fabienne Moreau, Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sébillot, IRISA, Rennes University – France Using Markov Chains to Exploit Word Relationships in Information Retrieval     Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai, University of Montreal – Canada Thu 12:40-1:30 p.m.   ;     Lunch Thu 1:30-3:30 p.m.   ;     APPLICATIONS SESSION Thu 3:30-4:00 p.m.   ;     Break and Demonstrations Thu 4:00-5:15 p.m.   ;     SESSION 6    XML IN RETRIEVAL A Survey on XML Focussed Component Retrieval     Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem, IRIT, Toulouse 3 University – France XML Fragments Extended with Database Operators     Yosi Mass, Dafna Sheinwald, Benjamin Sznajder,     Sivan Yogev, IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa – Israel >From Layout to Semantic: a Reranking Model for Mapping Web Documents to Mediated XML Representations     Guillaume Wisniewski, Patrick Gallinari, LIP6, Paris 6 University – France Thu 5:15-6:05 p.m.   ;     SESSION 7    IMAGE RETRIEVAL 1 Similarity Beyond Distance Measurement     Feng Kang, Rong Jin, Michigan State University – USA,     Steven Hoi, Hong Kong Chinese University – China Image Retrieval Using a Multilingual Ontology     Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST – France ________________________________________ FRIDAY JUNE 1, 2007 Fri 9:00-10:40 a.m.   ;     SESSION 8    PEER-TO-PEER AND WEB SEARCH A Co-operative Web Services Paradigm for Supporting Crawlers     Aravind Chandramouli, Susan Gauch, University of Kansas – USA Content-Based Peer-to-Peer Network Overlay for Full-Text Federated Search     Jie Lu, Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University – USA Homepage Finding in Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Networks     Enrico Bragante, Massimo Melucci, University of Padua – Italy Collective Annotation: Perspectives for Information Retrieval Improvement     Guillaume Cabanac, Max Chevalier, Claude Chrisment, Christine Julien,     IRIT, Toulouse 3 University – France Fri 10:40-11:10 a.m.   ; Break and Demonstrations Fri 11:10-12:00 a.m.   ; SESSION 9    IMAGE RETRIEVAL 2 Toward Content-based Indexing and Retrieval of Functional Brain Images     Bing Bai, Paul Kantor, Nicu Cornea, Deborah Silver, Rutgers University – USA Using the Knowledge of Object Colors to Segment Images and Improve Web Image Search     Christophe Millet, CEA LIST – France, Isabelle Bloch, GET-ENST – France Fri 12:00-1:00 p.m.   ;     Lunch Fri 1:00-2:40 p.m.   ;     SESSION 10    LINKS, PRIOR INFORMATION IN SEARCH Relevance Propagation Model for Large Hypertext Documents Collections     Idir Chibane, Bich-Lien Doan, SUPÉ;LEC – France Combination of Document Priors in Web Information Retrieval     Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow – UK Contextual Search Using Ontology-Based User Profiles     Vishnu Challam, Microsoft Corporation – USA, Susan Gauch,     Aravind Chandramouli, University of Kansas – USA Evidence-Based Information Extraction for High Accuracy Citation and Author Name Identification     Brett Powley, Robert Dale, Macquarie University – Australia Fri 2:40-4:00 p.m.   ;     POSTER SESSION 2 An Emergent Taxonomy Approach For Information Retrieval in Open Systems Valérie Camps, Pierre Glize, IRIT, Toulouse 3 University – France Extracting Useful Information from the Full Text of Fiction Sharon Givon, Maria Milosavljevic, University of Edinburgh – UK Ontology-Aided vs. Keyword-Based Web Searches: A Statistical Comparative Analysis Magdi Kamel, Ann Lee, Ed Powers, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey – USA Smart Qualitative Data (SQUAD): Information Extraction in a Large Document Archive Maria Milosavljevic, Claire Grover, University of Edinburgh – UK, Louise Corti, University of Essex – UK Indexing Low Frequency Information for Answering Complex Questions Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri, Julien Dubuc, Leila Kosseim, Sabine Bergler, CLaC laboratory, Concordia University – Canada Using Prior Information Derived from Citations in Literature Search Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam –  Netherlands Information Retrieval Techniques for Templated Queries Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst – USA Discovering Missing Values in Semi-Structured Databases Xing Yi, James Allan, Victor Lavrenko, University of Massachusetts Amherst – USA Audio Feature Engineering for Automatic Music Genre Classification Paolo Annesi, Roberto Basili, Raffaele Gitto, Alessandro Moschitti, Riccardo Petitti, University of Rome Tor Vergata – Italy Exploring Interactive Information Retrieval: An Integrated Approach to Interface Design and Interaction Analysis Gheorghe Muresan, Rutgers University – USA Fri 4:00-4:30 p.m.   ;     Break and Demonstrations Fri 4:30-5:45 p.m.   ;     SESSION 11    QUESTION ANSWERING, FACTS, AND SUMMARIES Logical Validation, Answer Merging and Witness Selection – A Study in Multi-Stream Question Answering     Ingo Glöckner, Sven Hartrumpf, Johannes Leveling, University of Hagen – Germany Estimating Importance Features for Fact Mining (With a Case Study in Biography Mining)   ;  Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Maarten de Rijke, Informatics Institute,     University of Amsterdam – Netherlands Capturing Sentence Prior for Query-Based Multi-Document Summarization  ;   Prasad Pingali, International Institute of Information Technology – India,     Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Microsoft – USA Fri 5:45-6:30 p.m.   ;     Concluding Ceremony