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Subject: 18.781, Confs: Text/Corpus Linguistics/USA

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Date: 14-Mar-2007
From: Helene Mazo < mazo at elda.org >
Subject: Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound) 

	
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:21:34
From: Helene Mazo < mazo at elda.org >
Subject:  Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound) 
 



Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound) 
Short Title: RIAO'2007 

Date: 30-May-2007 - 01-Jun-2007 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA 
Contact: Agnes Beriot 
Contact Email: information at le-cid.org 
Meeting URL: http://www.riao.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Internation Conference, with adjoining presentation of innovative applications. 

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, SUPÉLEC - 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





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