RIAO97: Information Retrieval on Internet, Montreal, June 25-27

J.Y. NIE (nie@paris.ensmp.fr)
Thu, 15 May 1997 18:19:12 +0200

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Including you will find the program of the RIAO97 (Computer Assisted
Information Retrieval on Internet) conference, June 25-27, Montreal. For
more information, please refer to the WWW page at
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97

Best regards,
J.Y. Nie

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Call For Participation

RIAO'97 CONFERENCE
Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet
June 25-27, 1997
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 [note: RIAO in CAPS]

Brief Description :
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Every three years the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales
d'Information Documentaire (CID) of Paris, France, along with various
international affiliates, organizes an RIAO conference (RIAO is the
French acronym for Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval) under the
sponsorship of European Community (EC), Ministere des affaires etrangeres,
Ministere de l'industrie, Secretariat d'etat a la recherche (France),
Ministere de l'industrie, du commerce, de la science et de la technologie
(Quebec) and CRIM (Canada). RIAO97 will be the fifth conference in the
series. RIAO85 was held in Grenoble, France; RIAO88 at MIT; RIAO91 in
Barcelona; and RIAO94 at Rockefeller University in New York.

RIAO conferences have the special feature of incorporating
both scientific papers and innovative product demonstrations. Both
the product demonstrations and the scientific papers (which are often
accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are subject to a
rigorous selection process. The mix of scientific expertise and
state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical
examination of both aspects, stimulating both new product development,
ecnouraging sponsorship of start-ups, as well as initiating lines of
further, critical research investigations.

RIAO97 focuses on new problems in information retrieval, filtering,
and dissemination resulting from the recent profusion and extensions
of networks. In particular, RIAO97 brings together search specialists
and web-based media specialists to consider how searching can best be
accomplished in the context of the proliferation of web sites, content
formats, browsing modalities, amount of data accessible, and number of
user accesses.

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FINAL PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE

GENERAL SESSION
June 25, 1997
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9:00-9:15 a.m WELCOMING STATEMENT
Prof. P.R. Belanger
Vice Principal, Research
McGill University, Canada

9:15-9:30 a.m RIAO97' Introduction
J. Thuiller
Professor at the College de France
President of the C.I.D.

9:30-10:00 a.m Invited Speaker
GILS Projet
N. Brodie
National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
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SESSION 1: INFORMATION DISCOVERY
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Chairman: L. Devroye, McGill University

10:00-10:25 a.m "The Do-I-Care Agent: Effective Social Discovery and
Filtering on the Web"
M.S. Ackerman, B. Starr, M. Pazzani
University of California, USA

10:25-10:50 a.m "Mining Information In Order To Extract Hidden And
Strategical Information"
T.Dkaki, B. Dousset, J. Mothe
Universite P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France

10:50-11:20 a.m Break and Demonstrations
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SESSION 2: VISUALISATION TOOLS FOR INFORMATION NAVIGATION
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Chairman: S. Tohme, ENST France

11:20-11:45 a.m "Design Issues for World Wide Web Navigation Visualisation
Tools"
A. Cockburn, S. Jones
University of Canterbury, University of Waikato, New Zealand

11:45-12:10 a.m "Footprints: History-Rich Web Browsing"
A. Wexelblat, P. Maes
Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

12:10-12:35 p.m "Using terminological base for Term-based information
retrieval"
J-Y Nie, Universite de Montreal, Canada

12:35-2:05 p.m LUNCH
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SESSION 3: AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING, REPOSITORIES
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Chairman: G. Grefenstette, Rank Xerox Research Centre

2:05-2:30 p.m "Development of a Document Summarization System for
Effective Information Services"
D. H. Jang, S. H. Myaeng
Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea

2:30-2:55 p.m "Automatic summarization on the Web? RAFI: A system for
summarizing using indicating fragments"
A. Lehmam, Universite de Nancy II, France

2:55-3:20 p.m "Towards Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information
Repositories"
B. Chidlovskii, U. M. Borghoff, P.Y. Chevalier
Rank Xerox Research Centre, France

3:20-3:45 p.m "Annotating the World Wide Web using Natural Language"
B. Katz, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA

3:45-4:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations
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SESSION 4: LINGUISTIC APPROACH FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
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Chairman: R. Cencioni, European Community

4:15-4:40 p.m "IRENA: Information Retrieval Engine based on Natural
Language Analysis"
A.T. Arampatzis ,T. Tsoris, C.H.A. Koster.
Patras, Greece and Netherlands

4:40-5:05 p.m "The Effect of Syntactic Phrase Indexing on Retrieval
Performance for Dutch Texts"
R. Pohlmann , W. Kraaij
Utrecht University, TNO-TPD, Netherlands

5:05-5:30 p.m "Using Simulated Annealing to Understand Natural Language
Texts"
S.A. Laribi, G. Desrocques, A. Laribi, J.C. Bassano
Universite d'Orleans, France. Geneva Univeristy, Switzerland

5:30-5:55 p.m "An Analysis of Statistical and Syntactic Phrases"
M. Mitra, C. Buckley, A. Singhal, C. Cardie
Cornell University, USA
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June 26, 1997
SESSION 5: MULTILINGUAL APPROACH
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Chairman: C. Fluhr, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique. France

9:00-9:25 a.m "Multi-Language Text Indexing for Internet Retrieval"
M.Wechsler, P. Sheridan, P. Schauble
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

9:25-9:50 a.m "Adaptative Filtering of Multilingual Document Streams"
D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA

9:50-10:15 a.m "A domain Specific Lexicon Acquisition Tool for
Cross-Language Information Retrieval"
D. Hiemstra, F. de Jong, W. Kraaij
CTIT, Twente University, Netherlands

10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations

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SESSION 6: IRS ARCHITECTURE
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Chairman: R. Marcus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)

10:45-11:10 a.m "EAGLE: An Extensible Architecture for General Linguistic
Engineering"
B. Baldwin , C. Doran, J.C. Reynar

11:10-11:35 a.m "Information Retrieval On The Word Wide Web using a Decision
Making System"
F. Corvaisier, A. Mille, J.M. Pinon, INSA, Lyon, France

11:35-12:00 a.m "A Multiagent Architecture for Information Retrieval on the
World-Wide Web"
V.N. Gudivada, S.P. Tolety
Wayne State University, University of Missouri. USA

12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH
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SESSION 7: INFORMATION EXTRACTION
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Chairman: C. Jacquemin, Universite de Nantes. France

1:30-2:45 p.m Panel
TREC in Many Languages
* TREC-5: English
D. Harman
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
* TREC-5: Spanish and Chinese
A. Smeaton
Dublin City University, Ireland
*The Amaryllis Project
C. Fluhr
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France

2:45-3:10 p.m "Integrated text categorisation and information extraction
using pattern matching and linguistic processing"
W. J. Black, L. Gilardoni, F. Rinaldi, R Dressel
UMIST, UK. Quinary Spa, Italy

3:10-3:35 p.m "On-Line Resource Discovery using Natural Language"
O.R. Zaine , A. Fall, S. Rochefort, V. Dahl, P. Tarau
Simon Fraser University, Canada

3:35-4:00 p.m "Coupling information retrieval and information extraction:
A new text technology for gathering information from the web"
R. Gaizauskas, A.M. Robertson
University of Sheffield, UK

4:00-4:30 p.m Break and Demonstrations
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SESSION 8: DOCUMENT / RELEVANCE RANKING
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Chairman: D.J. Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.

4:30-4:55 p.m "Summarizing Similarities and differences Among Related
Documents"
I. Mani , E. Bloedorn
The MITRE Corporation, USA

4:55-5:20 p.m "Relevance Ranking for One to Three Term Queries"
C.L.A. Clarke , G.V. Cormack, E.A. Tudhope
University of Toronto. Canada

5:20-5:45 p.m "Space Optimizations for Total Ranking"
D.R. Cutting, J.O. Pedersen
Excite Inc., USA

5:45-6:10 p.m "A Similarity-Based Agent for Internet Searching"
T.G. Rose, P. J. Wyard, Canon, UK
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June 27, 1997
SESSION 9: IRS ARCHITECTURE- II
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Chairman: U. Heid, Stuttgart University, Germany

9:00-9:25 a.m "ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing
Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discovery"
F. Menczer , R.K. Belew
University of California, USA

9:25-9:50 a.m "Cobra: A new approach to IR System design"
T. Mills, K. Moody, K. Rodden
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. UK

9:50-10:15 a.m "Interactive Image Retrieval by Means of Abductive Inference"
A. Muller, A. Everts
GMD. Germany

10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations
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SESSION 10: QUERY REFORMULATION
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Chairman: J.C. Bassano, Universite d'Orleans France.

10:45-11:10 a.m "Query modification based on relevance backpropagation"
M. Boughanem, C. Soule-Dupuy
MSI, Universite de Limoges, France

11:10-11:35 a.m "Query ReFormulation on the Internet: Empirical Data and the
Hyperindex Search Engine"
P.D. Bruza , S. Dennis
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

11:35-12:00 a.m SQLET: Short Query Linguistic Expansion Techniques:
Palliating One or Two-word Queries by Providing Intermediate
Structure to WWW Pages
G. Grefenstette
Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France

12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH
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SESSION 11: INFORMATION FILTERING
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Chairman: V. Semenova, ANALIT, Moscow

1:30-1:55 p.m "Probabilistic Learning for Information Filtering"
G. Amati , F. Crestani, F. Ubaldini, S. de Nardis
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Universita di Padova, Universita di
Roma, Italy

1:55-2:20 p.m "Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering: A
Comparative Study of Part-of-speech Tagging and Supertagging"
R. Chandrasekar , B. Srinivas
University of Pennsylvania, USA

2:20-2:45 p.m "Querying Hierarchical Text and Acyclic Hypertext with
Generalized Context-Free Grammars"
Y. Marcoux, M. Sevigny
Universite de Montreal, Canada

2:45-3:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations
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SESSION 12: INFORMATION EXTRACTION II
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Chairman: J.P. Haton, Universite Henri-Poincare, Nancy I, France

3:15-3:40 p.m "A probabilistic model of Passage Categorization"
M. Iwayama, T. Tokunaga
Advanced Research Laboratory, Japan

3:40-4:05 p.m "Knowledge Discovery From Natural Language Texts"
U. Hahn, K. Schnattinger
Freiburg University, Germany

4:05-4:30 p.m "Extraction of Index Words from Manuals"
H. Nakagawa
Yokohama National University, Japan

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SESSION 13: JUDICIAL PROBLEMS
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Chairman: J. Perriere, C.I.D. France

4:30-4:55 p.m "Limits of Using Data"
Maitre Feral-Schuhl
Ordre Des Avocats du Barreau de Paris, France.

4:55-5:20 p.m "Data Security"
Maitre G. Arendt
President of Computer Commission of the International
Union of Lawyers, Luxemburg

5:20-5:45 p.m "Security Concerns On The Intranet"
Maitre Landry
Montreal, Canada.
Union Internationale des Avocats.

5:45-6:15 p.m Conclusions

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For more information, please see our web page:
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97/
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