[Corpora-List] RIAO 2007 - Call for applications still open (until March 16, 2007)

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****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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