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