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> >                     Call For Papers and Applications
>    
> The "Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique
> Documentaire" (C.I.D.) is organizing the seventh triennial RIAO
> Conference: Coupling approaches, coupling media and coupling languages
> for information retrieval.
>  
> RIAO'2004 will take place in Avignon (Vaucluse, France) on April 26th,
> 27th, and 28th, 2004.
> 
> Submissions for the communications will be made electronically on its
> web site : http://www.riao.org.
> 
> The working language is English.
> 
> 
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> 
>                               RIAO'2004
> 
>     Coupling Approaches, Coupling Media and Coupling Languages for
>                         Information Retrieval
> 
>                       Avignon (Vaucluse), France
> 
>                               April 2004
> 
> Organized by:
> 
>   Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire
>   (C.I.D., France)
> 
> 
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> 
> Current approaches to content-based information management involve many
> different disciplines. Interesting research is addressing the problems
> of information retrieval from mixed media and languages (e.g. from video
> with images, sound and text; documents with text, image and graphics),
> and from applying mixed approaches from different domains (e.g., from
> speech and text processing, from machines learning and
> linguistics). Applications such as question answering involve both
> semantics and syntax; some approaches involve analyzing both the
> reference database and the Web. As information technology spreads
> throughout the world, it must handle a wider variety of languages,
> retrieving information in and between increasingly complex combinations
> of languages.
> 
> As a response to this evolution, RIAO'2004 calls for papers covering the
> coupling of techniques from different domains to improve information
> retrieval from a single media, or from across media (indexing one media
> for find information in another), or from coupling unstructured and
> structured information (e.g. exploiting both text and XML structure), or
> from across languages.
> 
> RIAO'2004 will also present innovative research and developments
> illustrating the important obstacles in multi-media and multi-language
> information retrieval. In RIAO'2004 there will be special focus on
> techniques which couple disparate technologies or approaches.
> 
> CONFERENCE THEMES:
> 
> Paper submissions should cover one or more of the following themes:
> 
> Multimedia information:
> 
>     * Media-specific indexing techniques (text, speech, fixed and
>       animated images, music)
>     * Indexing composite documents
>     * Querying multimedia documents
>     * Automatically generating text from images and from video
>     * Indexing interactive documents
> 
> Multilingual Information:
> 
>     * Cross-lingual information retrieval
>     * Automatic construction of bilingual lexicons and term banks
>     * Production of multilingual documents
> 
> Man Machine Combinations:
> 
>     * Coupling search and browsing
>     * Coupling search and semantic mapping (ontologies, SOM, etc)
>     * Multimodal interfaces
>     * Coupling access through structure and through content
>     * Automatic presentation of search aids (e.g. key words, phrases)
>     * Neuroscience applied to information recognition
> 
> Architecture for Combined Approaches:
> 
>     * Architecture for coupling techniques (e.g. Machine Learning for
>       Content Management)
>     * Architecture for coupling media
>     * Architecture for treating multilingual information
> 
> Specific Systems Combining Diverse Approaches:
> 
>     * Systems for Collaborative Information Retrieval
>     * Question answering systems
>     * Multidocument or multilingual summarization
>     * Automatic translation, translation memory
> 
> Combining Linguistic and Statistics for Retrieving Content:
> 
>     * Improved linguistic analyzers in information retrieval
>     * Exploiting linguistic knowledge in search and retrieval
>     * Integrating search and linguistic treatments
>     * Extracting knowledge
>     * Semantics in indexation and retrieval
> 
> Composite Documents and Content:
> 
>     * Exploiting document structure
>     * Semantic Web
>     * Exploiting new multimedia norms for content-based information
>       management
> 
> Evaluation of Combined Approaches:
> 
>     * User oriented retrieval metrics
>     * New retrieval metrics
>     * Question-Answering systems evaluation metrics
> 
> Application domains combining techniques:
> (descriptions of systems involving the following domains):
> 
>     * Cultural heritage
>     * Indexation and retrieval of medical images
>     * Applications concerning security
>     * Protection of intellectual property
>     * Protection of minors
>     * E-learning
>     * Technology Watch
> 
> 
> Important Dates:
>  
>   First Call for Papers October 1, 2003
>   Deadline for paper submission December 1, 2003
>   Camera-Ready Copies Due March 8, 2004
>   Conference Dates April 26-28, 2004
> 
> Submissions should be about 6000 words (about 20 pages, double space),
> include an abstract and be submitted in PDF or PS format.
> 
> 
> 
> CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
> 
> The RIAO Conference has always sent for calls for
> applications. Innovative applications and products related to the
> conference topics are sought for demonstrations during the three days of
> the Conference. They will be selected by the international Application
> committee, on the basis of their innovation and future or present
> marketability. Selected applications will be given free demonstrations
> spaces.
> 
> Application submissions should cover one or more of the following
> topics: 
> 
>     * Multimedia indexing and retrieval systems (text, sound, speech,
>       images, video) 
>     * Cross-lingual indexing and retrieval systems
>     * Peer-to-peer text search engines
>     * Cooperative Information Retrieval (grids)
>     * Automatic XML structuring of documents
>     * Automatic metadata generation for text, sound, and images,
>       automatic annotators 
>     * Automated ontology construction and annotators
>     * Topic detection and event detection in streaming documents,
>       technology watch, strategy watch Intelligent message filtering 
>     * Intelligent text agents
>     * Parent control and anti-spam control by content filtering
>     * E-learning - response interpretation Document summarisation --
>       mono or multilingal, mono or multidocument, profile driven 
>     * Topics maps
>     * Domain-specific application of information retrieval and
>       multimedia retrieval: medicine, e-commerce, computer-assisted
>       teaching, video production, etc.
> 
> Important Dates:
>  
>   First Call for Applications October 1, 2003
>   Deadline for application submission April 1, 2004
>   Conference Dates April 26-28, 2004
> 
> 
> 
> The RIAO 2004 Conference is organized by:
> 
>   Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire
>   (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
> 
> Contacts:
> 
>   Email: information@riao.org
> 
>   Web: http://www.riao.org
> 
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