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    Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique (C.I.D.)
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                          Call For Papers and Applications

                                     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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