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@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@limsi.fr" ASAP.
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