Appel: RIAO-2000

Fri Jul 30 09:05:18 UTC 1999

From: masson at limsi.fr (Nicolas Masson)

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				RIAO 2000

		Content-Based Multimedia Information Access

				Paris, France

				April 2000

			Preliminary Announcement

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Organized by:

Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D.,
France)
&
Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S., USA)

With the collaboration of AII, ASIS, ELRA, Elsnet, ESCA, Francil (preliminary
list)
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Introduction

The RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur = Computer-Assisted
Information Retrieval) International Conference is held every 3 years. Sites for
the conference have been Grenoble (1985), Boston (1988), Barcelona (1991), New
York (1994) and Montreal (1997). Paris will host the next RIAO conference in
Spring 2000. The conference is organized by the Centre de Hautes Etudes
Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D.) and the Center for the
Advanced Study of Information Systems (C.A.S.I.S.).

The theme of the conference is "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access".
The conference scope will range from the traditional processing of text
documents to the rapidly growing field of automatic indexing and retrieval of
images and speech and, more generally, to all processing of audio-visual and
multimedia information on various supports, including the net. The conference is
of interest for several scientific communities, including Information Retrieval,
Natural Language Processing,  Spoken Language Processing, Computer Vision,
Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. RIAO 2000 will, thereby, serve
as a forum for synergetic initiatives and forward-looking applications.

The Scientific Committee will select the papers and the Application Committee
will select the innovative applications and products to be presented at the
conference. In order to support the multi-disciplinary goals of the conference,
these international committees include representatives of different scientific
communities.

RIAO 2000 will present recent scientific research advances, demonstrations of
prototypes resulting from this research as well as the most innovative products
now appearing on the market. A worldwide Call for Papers is addressed to
researchers engaged in academic or industrial research. The associated Call for
Applications is addressed to companies and public organizations developing or
marketing hardware or software related to the conference topics.

RIAO 2000 Conference Topics:
Under the theme "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access", the following
topics are among those included for the Communications and for Innovative
Application Demonstrations:

Document processing:
	Hypertextual and Hypermedia documents
	Human-Computer Interaction for document handling
	Textual and voice-based annotation creation and retrieval
	Digital libraries
	AI techniques for document generation and consultation
	Multimodal and transmodal human-machine communication

Information Retrieval:
	Information retrieval systems and methods
	Document search over the internet
	Text Mining
	Information and document routing/profiling/alerting
	Document classification

Spoken Language Processing:
	Voice-based document segmentation and transcription
	Voice-based document indexing and retrieval
	Identification of language of speaker
	Speaker recognition
	Audio Mining
	Non-verbal sound processing (music, noise...)

Natural Language Processing:
	Information extraction
	NLP techniques for document processing
	Terminology extraction and analysis
	Automatic thesaurus construction
	Multilingual and crosslingual document handling
	Machine translation of documents
	Automatic summarization
	Identification of language of text

Image processing:
	Automatic indexing and retrieval of visual documents
	Computer graphics for document generation and consultation
	Segmentation and indexing of visual data
	Face, gaze and expression recognition
	Character recognition in visual documents
	Image Mining
	Video indexing and retrieval

System architecture:
	Multi-agent architecture, search agents
	Intelligent agents, Androids and Avatars

Usage and best practice:
	Socio-economics of information retrieval
	Quantitative, qualitative and comparative evaluation
	Coding standards and Quality of Services
	Security and privacy
	Cognitive aspects, Human Factors and Ergonomics
	Legal aspects of multimedia document handling
	Multimedia and multimodal resources

Applications:

	Computer-aided information access for the handicapped
	Multimedia systems for medical applications
	Image Guided Surgery and Augmented Reality
	Medical documents archiving and retrieval
	Transmodal information access systems
	Telephone-based, nomad and in-vehicle systems
	Intelligent systems for call-center reporting
	Customized customer support (Aerospace product manuals...)
	Strategic and technology watch & Business Intelligence
	Real-Time information access for financial markets
	Information access for decision aid systems
	Multimodal Geographical Information Systems
	Television and Radio Broadcast Archiving and Browsing...

Call for Papers

The papers will be reviewed by the International Scientific Committee.

RIAO 2000 International Scientific Committee (preliminary list, as of July 15,
1999) :

Co-Chairs : Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) and Donna Harman (NIST, USA)

Jean-Claude Bassano (University of Orleans, France)
Alain Berthoz (LPPA, College de France, France)
Patrick Bouthemy (IRISA, France)
George Carayannis (ILSP, Greece)
Francine Chen (Xerox, USA)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusets, USA)
Franciska de Jong (University of Twente,The Netherlands)
Susan Dumais (Microsoft, USA)
David Evans (CMU and Claritech, USA)
Christian Fluhr (CEA, France)
Hiroya Fujisaki (Science University of Tokyo, Japan)
Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Edouard Geoffrois (DGA/CTA, France)
Jean-Paul Haton (LORIA, France)
Alex Hauptman (CMU, USA)
Ulrich Heid (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Roland Hjerppe (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Mun Kew Leong ( Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore)
Judith Klavans (Columbia University, USA)
Wessel Kraaij (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands)
Francis Kubala (BBN, USA)
Gianni Lazzari (IRST, Italy)
Alain Leger (CNET- France Telecom, France)
R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Richard Marcus (MIT, USA)
Mark Maybury (MITRE, USA)
Franck Nack (GMD IPSI, Germany)
Klaus Netter (DFKI, Germany)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)
Douglas Oard (University of Maryland, USA)
Georges Quenot (CLIPS, France)
Dragutin Petkovic (IBM, USA)
K. J. Ray Liu (University of Maryland, USA)
Ze'ev Rivlin (Natural Speech Communication, Israel)
Arnold Smeulders (ISIS, UvA, The Netherlands)
Karen Spark-Jones (CUED, UK)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Lucent technologies, USA)
Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia)
Phil Woodland (CUED, UK)

Call for Applications

Tools and products related to the conference topics are sought for demonstration
at special conference sessions. Applications and products will be selected by
the International Application Committee, on the basis of their innovation,
utility, and present and future marketability.

RIAO 2000 International Application Committee (preliminary list, as of July 15,
1999) :

Chair: Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox, France)

Marie-Francoise Clergeau (College de France, France)
Daniel Confland (Jouve, France)
Max Copperman (Kanisa, USA)
Giorgio Dimino (RAI, Italy)
Pascal Faudemay (LIP6, France)
Michael Horowitz (Claritech, USA)
Hitoshi Iida (Sony Speech & Language Laboratory, Japan)
Hans-Joachim Novak (IBM, Germany)
Norbert Paquel (Canope, France)
Sylvie Regnier-Prost (Aerospatiale-Matra, France)
Remi Ronfard (INA, France)
Antonio Sanfilippo (EC, Luxembourg)
Laurent Schmitt (INIST-CNRS, France)
Vera Semenova (Sciper/Analit, Russia)
Joop Van Gent (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands)

The RIAO 2000 Conference is organized by:

Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaires (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 or 1 45 26 84 45

and

Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S.)

Co / C. Constantin
575 Madison Avenue
25th floor
New York N.Y. 10022 USA

Contacts:

Email: riao2000 at limsi.fr

Web: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO

Organizing and Coordinating Committee:

Agnes Beriot (CID, France)
Peter Brodnitz (CASIS, USA)
Jean-Louis Darc (France-Pologne, France)
Jean-Jacques Guilbart (College de France, France)
Nicolas Masson (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Jean Perriere (CID, France)
Sharyn Rozart (CASIS, USA)
Anne Tabutiaux (Recherche et Diffusion Scientifique, France)
Tony Venables (ECAS, Belgium)

Calendar:

* Preliminary announcement: July 1999
* Call for Papers & Demonstrations: September 15, 1999
* Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999
* Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1999
* Submission of complete papers: January 15, 2000
* Final Program: January 25, 2000
* Conference: April 2000 (exact final dates to be announced)

If you're interested in participating in the conference, or if you intend to
submit a paper, a prototype or an application demo, or if you wish to know more
about the conference when the information will be available, please fill in the
Attendance Intention Form below, and send it to "riao2000 at limsi.fr" ASAP.

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