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                      Call For Papers and Applications

                                 RIAO'2004

       Coupling Approaches, Coupling Media and Coupling Languages for
                           Information Retrieval


                  University of Avignon (Vaucluse), France

                          April 26th-28th, 2004


   Organized by:

     CENTRE DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES D'INFORMATIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE
     (C.I.D., France)

     in cooperation with the LIA (Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon -
     Université d'Avignon)

     and with technical support of IRIT (Institut de Recherche en
     Informatique de Toulouse)


   CALL FOR PAPERS

   Current  content-based information  management  involves many different
   disciplines. Information must be retrieved from  video, from sound, and
   from  images and graphs.  Question answering  involves both syntax  and
   semantics.   

   Information classification and filtering  involve machine learning  and
   linguistics. In addition, as  information technology spreads throughout
   the   world, a   wider variety  of   languages in  increasingly complex
   combinations must be handled. 

   In  response  to these    evolving  needs, RIAO'2004 calls for   papers
   covering the  coupling of techniques from  different domains to improve
   information retrieval. RIAO'2004 will  present innovative  research and
   developments from    all  areas  of   multi-media  and   multi-language
   information  retrieval.   Submissions,   demonstrating combination   of 
   techniques from disparate  domains,  may treat retrieval from  either a
   single  medium, or   across   media  (indexing  one  medium  for   find
   information in another), or  from coupling unstructured  and structured
   information  (e.g. exploiting both   text and XML  structure), or  from
   across languages.   


   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, especially involving 
       rarer languages 
     * 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 
     * Knowledge Extraction for Information Retrieval
     * Semantics in indexation and retrieval

     Composite Documents and Content:

     * Exploiting document structure
     * Semantic Web, and Ontologies for Full-Scale Information Retrieval
     * 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 15, 2003
     Notification of acceptance of papers: January 31, 2004
     Camera-ready copies due:              March 8, 2004
     Conference dates:                     April 26-28, 2004

   Submissions    should be about   6000   words (about 20 pages,  double
   spaced),  include and abstract  and be submitted in  PDF  or PS format. 

   Submissions  for communications will be made electronically on its web
   site : http://www.riao.org.

   The  working  language  of the conference   is  English.   However, in
   agreement with the French regulations  of the "Loi Toubon", submission
   of papers in French and presentation of papers, if selected, in French
   will be accepted.



   CALL 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
     * Topic 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:         January 31, 2004
     Notification for acceptance of applications: March 15, 2004
     Conference dates:                            April 26-28, 2004



   Program Committee

   Co-Chairs   Christian Fluhr   Gregory Grefenstette   Bruce Croft
               CEA, France       Clairvoyance           UMass, Amherst, USA
               Europe, Africa    Asia, Oceania          Americas

               Catherine Berrut       IMAG, France
               Francine Chen          PARC, USA
               Claude Chrisment       IRIT, Toulouse, France
               Franciska de Jong      Univ. Twente, Netherland
               Claude de Loupy        Sinequa, France
               Renato De Mori         Univ. Avignon, France
               Marc El-Bèze           Univ. Avignon, France
               Pascale Fung           Scienc. Tech. Univ., Hong Kong
               Sadaoki Furui          Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan
               Jean-Luc Gauvain       LIMSI, France
               Edouard Geoffrois      ETCA/DGA, France
               Julio Gonzalo          UNED, Spain
               Donna Harman           NIST, USA
               Ulrich Heid            Univ. Stuttgart, Germany
               Eduard Hovy            ISI, Univ. S. California, USA
               Christian Jacquemin    LIMSI, France
               Boris Katz             MIT, USA
               Elisabeth Liddy        Univ. Syracuse, USA
               Simone Marinai         Univ. Florence, Italy
               José Martinez          Univ. Nantes, France
               Christof Monz          Univ. Amsterdam, Netherland
               Frank Nack             CWI, Netherland
               Chahab Nastar          LTU, France
               Jian-Yun Nie           Univ. Montréal, Canada
               Douglas Oard           Univ. Maryland, USA
               Jörg Ontrup            Univ. Bielefeld, Germany
               Gabriella Pasi         Univ. Milano, Italy
               Marie Theresa Pazienza Univ. Roma, Italy
               Marc Pic               Advestigo, France
               Jean-Marie Pierrel     INALF, France
               Jean-Marie Pinon       INSA Lyon, France
               Yan Qu                 Clairvoyance, USA
               Steve Renals           Univ. Sheffield, Great Britain
               Tetsuya Sakai          Toshiba, Japan
               Frédérique Segond      Xerox, France
               Bernadette Sharp       Staffordshire, Great Britain
               Alan Smeaton           Univ. Dublin, Ireland
               Tokunaga Takenobu      Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan
               Simone Teufel          Univ. Cambridge, Great Britain
               Evelyne Tzoukermann    ACM, USA
               Keith Van Rijsbergen   Univ. Glasgow, Great Britain
               Ross Wilkinson         CSIRO, Australia
               Zhiping Zheng          Univ. Saarland, Germany

                                      (Final list forthcoming)


   Applications Committee

   Chair       Chantal Soulé-Dupuy
               Université de Toulouse,
               France


                                      (Forming Committee)


   Organisation and Coordination Committee

   Chair       Agnès Beriot
               Déléguée Générale du C.I.D.,
               France

               Peter Brodnitz         Ogilvy & Mather, Japan
               Jean Louis d'Arc       Fédération France-Polonge, France
               Jean Perrière          Administrator, Secretary General, C.I.D.,
                                        France
               Saryn Rosart           CASIS, USA
               Anne Tabutiaux         Recherche et Diffusion, France

                                      (Final list forthcoming)


   Local Organisation Committee

               Aurélia Barrière       Univ. Avignon, France
               Stéphane Igounet       Univ. Avignon, France

                                      (Final list forthcoming)


   Technical Committee

   President   Luc Boulianne
               C.I.D., Canada

               Jonathan Albert        C.I.D., Canada
               Max Chevalier          Univ. Toulouse, France
               Jean-Jacques Guilbart  Collège de France, France
               Cécile Laffaire        Univ. Toulouse, France

                                      (Final list forthcoming)


   Contact Information

     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

     Email: information@le-cid.org
     Web: http://www.le-cid.org

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                        <p align="center" class="style11 style1"><span class="style5">Coupling 
                          Approaches, Coupling Media and Coupling Languages for 
                          Information Retrieval </span></p>
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                          University of Avignon (Vaucluse), France</span></p>
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                          April 26<sup>th</sup>-28<sup>th</sup>, 2004</span></p>
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                        <p class="style1" align="left"> Organized by:</p>
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                          <p class="style1" align="left"><strong>CENTRE DE HAUTES ETUDES 
                            INTERNATIONALES D'INFORMATIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE (C.I.D., 
                            France)<br>
                            </strong><br>
                            in cooperation with the LIA (Laboratoire d'Informatique 
                          d'Avignon - Universit&eacute; d'Avignon) </p>
                          <p class="style1" align="left">and with technical support 
                            of IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de 
                            Toulouse)</p>
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                        <p align="left" class="style5">CALL FOR PAPERS</p>
                        <p align="left" class="style1"> Current content-based information management involves many different disciplines. Information must be retrieved from video, from sound, and from images and graphs. Question answering involves both syntax and semantics. </p>
                        <p align="left" class="style1">Information classification and filtering involve machine learning and linguistics. In addition, as information technology spreads throughout the world, a wider variety of languages in increasingly complex combinations must be handled. </p>                        <p align="left" class="style1">                          In response to these evolving needs, RIAO'2004 calls for papers covering the coupling of techniques from different domains to improve information retrieval. RIAO'2004 will present innovative research and developments from all areas of multi-media and multi-language information retrieval. Submissions, demonstrating combination of techniques from disparate domains,&nbsp;may treat retrieval from either a single medium, or across media (indexing one medium for find information in another), or from coupling unstructured and structured&nbsp;information (e.g. exploiting both text and XML structure), or from across!
 languages. </p>
                        <p align="left" class="style5">Conference Themes:</p>
                        <p align="left" class="style1">Paper submissions should 
                          cover one or more of the following themes: </p>
                        <blockquote class="style1"> 
                          <p align="left" class="style11"><strong>Multimedia information:</strong></p>
                          <div align="left"> 
                            <ul>
                              <li class="style11">Media-specific indexing techniques 
                                (text, speech, fixed and animated images, music)</li>
                              <li class="style11">Indexing composite documents</li>
                              <li class="style11">Querying multimedia documents</li>
                              <li class="style11">Automatically generating text 
                                from images and from video</li>
                              <li class="style11">Indexing interactive documents</li>
                            </ul>
                          </div>
                          <p align="left" class="style11"><strong>Multilingual 
                            Information:</strong></p>
                          <div align="left"> 
                            <ul>
                              <li class="style11">Cross-lingual information retrieval, especially involving rarer languages</li>
                              <li class="style11">Automatic construction of bilingual 
                                lexicons and term banks </li>
                              <li class="style11">Production of multilingual documents</li>
                            </ul>
                          </div>
                          <p align="left" class="style11"><strong>Man Machine 
                            Combinations:</strong></p>
                          <div align="left"> 
                            <ul>
                              <li class="style11">Coupling search and browsing 
                              </li>
                              <li class="style11">Coupling search and semantic 
                                mapping (ontologies, SOM, etc) </li>
                              <li class="style11">Multimodal interfaces </li>
                              <li class="style11">Coupling access through structure 
                                and through content </li>
                              <li class="style11">Automatic presentation of search 
                                aids (e.g. key words, phrases) </li>
                              <li class="style11">Neuroscience applied to information 
                              recognition</li>
                            </ul>
                          </div>
                          <p align="left" class="style11"><strong>Architecture 
                            for Combined Approaches:</strong></p>
                          <div align="left"> 
                            <ul>
                              <li class="style11">Architecture for coupling techniques 
                                (e.g. Machine Learning for Content Management) 
                              </li>
                              <li class="style11">Architecture for coupling media 
                              </li>
                              <li class="style11">Architecture for treating multilingual 
                                information </li>
                            </ul>
                          </div>
                          <p align="left" class="style11"><strong>Specific Systems 
                            Combining Diverse Approaches:</strong></p>
                          <div align="left"> 
                            <ul>
                              <li class="style11">Systems for Collaborative Information 
                                Retrieval </li>
                              <li class="style11">Question answering systems </li>
                              <li class="style11">Multidocument or multilingual 
                                summarization </li>
                              <li class="style11">Automatic translation, translation 
                                memory</li>
                            </ul>
                          </div>
                          <p align="left" class="style11"><strong>Combining Linguistic 
                            and Statistics for Retrieving Content:</strong></p>
                          <div align="left"> 
                            <ul>
                              <li class="style11">Improved linguistic analyzers 
                                in information retrieval </li>
                              <li>Exploiting linguistic knowledge in search and retrieval&nbsp;
                              <li>Knowledge Extraction for Information Retrieval</li>
                              <li class="style11">Semantics in indexation and 
                              retrieval </li>
                            </ul>
                          </div>
                          <p align="left" class="style11"><strong>Composite Documents 
                            and Content:</strong></p>
                          <div align="left"> 
                            <ul>
                              <li class="style11">Exploiting document structure 
                              </li>
                              <li class="style11">Semantic Web 


 and Ontologies for Full-Scale Information Retrieval</li>
                              <li class="style11">Exploiting new multimedia norms 
                                for content-based information management </li>
                            </ul>
                          </div>
                          <p align="left" class="style11"><strong>Evaluation of 
                            Combined Approaches:</strong></p>
                          <div align="left"> 
                            <ul>
                              <li class="style11">User oriented retrieval metrics 
                              </li>
                              <li class="style11">New retrieval metrics </li>
                              <li class="style11">Question-Answering systems evaluation 
                                metrics </li>
                            </ul>
                          </div>
                          <p class="style11" align="left"><strong>Application 
                            domains combining techniques:</strong> <br>
                            (descriptions of systems involving the following domains):</p>
                          <div align="left"> 
                            <ul>
                              <li class="style11">Cultural heritage</li>
                              <li class="style11">Indexation and retrieval of 
                                medical images </li>
                              <li class="style11">Applications concerning security 
                              </li>
                              <li class="style11">Protection of intellectual property 
                              </li>
                              <li class="style11">Protection of minors </li>
                              <li class="style11">E-learning </li>
                              <li class="style11">Technology Watch</li>
                            </ul>
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                              <td width="30%" class="style1">October 1, 2003</td>
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                              <td width="64%" class="style1">Deadline for paper 
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                              <td width="64%" class="style1">Conference dates:</td>
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                        <p class="style1" align="left">Submissions should be about 
                          6000 words (about 20 pages, double spaced), include 
                          and abstract and be submitted in PDF or PS format. </p>
                        <p class="style1" align="left">Submissions for communications 
                          will be made electronically on its web site : <a href="http://www.riao.org">http://www.riao.org</a>.</p>
                        <p class="style01" align="left"> The working language 
                          of the conference is English. However, in agreement 
                          with the French regulations of the &quot;Loi Toubon&quot;, 
                          submission of papers in French and presentation of papers, 
                          if selected, in French will be accepted.<br>
                        </p>
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                        <p class="style5" align="left">CALL FOR APPLICATIONS</p>
                        <p class="style1" align="left">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.<br>
                        </p>
                        <p class="style1" align="left">Application submissions 
                          should cover one or more of the following topics:</p>
                        <div align="left"> 
                          <blockquote class="style1"> 
                            <ul>
                              <li class="style11">Multimedia indexing and retrieval 
                                systems (text, sound, speech, images, video) </li>
                              <li class="style11">Cross-lingual indexing and retrieval 
                                systems </li>
                              <li class="style11">Peer-to-peer text search engines 
                              </li>
                              <li class="style11">Cooperative Information Retrieval 
                                (grids) </li>
                              <li class="style11">Automatic XML structuring of 
                                documents </li>
                              <li class="style11">Automatic metadata generation 
                                for text, sound, and images, automatic annotators 
                              </li>
                              <li class="style11">Automated ontology construction 
                                and annotators </li>
                              <li class="style11">Topic detection and event detection 
                                in streaming documents, technology watch, strategy 
                                watch </li>
                              <li>Intelligent message filtering</li>
                              <li class="style11">Intelligent text agents </li>
                              <li class="style11">Parent control and anti-spam 
                                control by content filtering </li>
                              <li class="style11">E-learning - response interpretation 
                              </li>
                              <li>Document summarisation -- mono or multilingal, 
                                mono or multidocument, profile driven </li>
                              <li class="style11">Topic maps </li>
                              <li class="style11">Domain-specific application 
                                of information retrieval and multimedia retrieval: 
                                medicine, e-commerce, computer-assisted teaching, 
                                video production, etc </li>
                            </ul>
                          </blockquote>
                        </div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2"> 
                        <div align="left">&nbsp;</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2"> 
                        <p class="style5" align="left">Important dates:</p>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2"> 
                        <div align="left">&nbsp;</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2"> 
                        <div align="left"> 
                          <table width="75%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                            <tr> 
                              <td width="6%" class="style11">&nbsp;</td>
                              <td width="64%" class="style1">First call for applications:</td>
                              <td width="30%" class="style1">October 1, 2003</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td width="6%" class="style11">&nbsp;</td>
                              <td width="64%" class="style1">Deadline for application 
                                submission:</td>
                              <td width="30%" class="style1">January 31, 2004</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td width="6%" class="style11">&nbsp;</td>
                              <td width="64%" class="style1">Notification for 
                                acceptance of applications:</td>
                              <td width="30%" class="style1">March 15, 2004</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td width="6%" class="style11">&nbsp;</td>
                              <td width="64%" class="style1">Conference dates:</td>
                              <td width="30%" class="style1">April 26-28, 2004</td>
                            </tr>
                          </table>
                        </div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2"> 
                        <div align="left">&nbsp;</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2" class="style5"> 
                        <div align="left">Program Committee</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2" class="style5"> 
                        <div align="left">&nbsp;</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td width="69" valign="top" class="style1"> 
                        <div align="left"><b>Co-Chairs</b></div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="595"> 
                        <div align="left"> 
                          <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="style1">
                            <tr>
                              <td colspan="2" class="style1"><table width="100%" align="left">
                                <tr align="left" valign="top">
                                  <td width="178"><p><b>Christian Fluhr</b><br>
        CEA, France<br>
        <em class="style01">Europe, Africa</em></p></td>
                                  <td width="177"><p><strong>Gregory Grefenstette<br>
                                      </strong> Clairvoyance<br>
                                      <em class="style01">Asia, Oceania</em> </p></td>
                                  <td width="177"><b>Bruce Croft</b><br>
      Univ. of Mass, Amherst, USA<br>
      <em class="style01">Americas</em></td>
                                </tr>
                              </table></td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>&nbsp;</td>
                              <td>&nbsp;</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Catherine Berrut</td>
                              <td>IMAG, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Francine Chen</td>
                              <td>PARC, USA</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Claude Chrisment</td>
                              <td>IRIT, Toulouse, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Franciska de Jong</td>
                              <td>Univ. Twente, Netherland</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Claude de Loupy</td>
                              <td>Sinequa, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Renato De Mori</td>
                              <td>Univ. Avignon, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Marc El-B&egrave;ze</td>
                              <td>Univ. Avignon, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Pascale Fung</td>
                              <td>Scienc. Tech. Univ., Hong Kong</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Sadaoki Furui</td>
                              <td>Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Jean-Luc Gauvain</td>
                              <td>LIMSI, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Edouard Geoffrois</td>
                              <td>ETCA/DGA, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Julio Gonzalo</td>
                              <td>UNED, Spain</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Donna Harman</td>
                              <td>NIST, USA</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Ulrich Heid</td>
                              <td>Univ. Stuttgart, Germany</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Eduard Hovy</td>
                              <td>ISI, Univ. S. California, USA</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Christian Jacquemin</td>
                              <td>LIMSI, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Boris Katz</td>
                              <td>MIT, USA</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Elisabeth Liddy</td>
                              <td>Univ. Syracuse, USA</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Simone Marinai</td>
                              <td>Univ. Florence, Italy</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Jos&eacute; Martinez</td>
                              <td>Univ. Nantes, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Christof Monz</td>
                              <td>Univ. Amsterdam, Netherland</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Frank Nack</td>
                              <td>CWI, Netherland</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Chahab Nastar</td>
                              <td>LTU, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Jian-Yun Nie</td>
                              <td>Univ. Montr&eacute;al, Canada</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Douglas Oard</td>
                              <td>Univ. Maryland, USA</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>J&ouml;rg Ontrup</td>
                              <td>Univ. Bielefeld, Germany</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td height="19">Gabriella Pasi</td>
                              <td height="19">Univ. Milano, Italy</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Marie Theresa Pazienza</td>
                              <td>Univ. Roma, Italy</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                              <td>Marc Pic </td>
                              <td> Advestigo, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Jean-Marie Pierrel</td>
                              <td>INALF, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Jean-Marie Pinon</td>
                              <td>INSA Lyon, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                              <td>Yan Qu</td>
                              <td>Clairvoyance, USA</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Steve Renals</td>
                              <td>Univ. Sheffield, Great Britain</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Tetsuya Sakai</td>
                              <td>Toshiba, Japan</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Fr&eacute;d&eacute;rique Segond</td>
                              <td>Xerox, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Bernadette Sharp</td>
                              <td>Staffordshire, Great Britain</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Alan Smeaton</td>
                              <td>Univ. Dublin, Ireland</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Tokunaga Takenobu</td>
                              <td>Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Simone Teufel</td>
                              <td>Univ. Cambridge, Great Britain</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Evelyne Tzoukermann</td>
                              <td>ACM, USA</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Keith Van Rijsbergen</td>
                              <td>Univ. Glasgow, Great Britain</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Ross Wilkinson</td>
                              <td>CSIRO, Australia</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>Zhiping Zheng</td>
                              <td>Univ. Saarland, Germany</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>&nbsp;</td>
                              <td>&nbsp;</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
                              <td class="style01"><i>(Final list forthcoming)</i></td>
                            </tr>
                          </table>
                        </div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style5">&nbsp;</td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style5"> 
                        <div align="left">&nbsp;</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style5"> 
                        <div align="left">Applications Committee</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style1"> 
                        <div align="left">&nbsp;</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td width="69" valign="top" class="style1"> 
                        <div align="left"><b>Chair</b></div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="595"> 
                        <div align="left"> 
                          <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="style1">
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" colspan="2"><b>Chantal Soul&eacute;-Dupuy</b><br>
                                Universit&eacute; de Toulouse, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" width="36%">&nbsp;</td>
                              <td class="style1" width="64%">&nbsp;</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" width="36%">&nbsp;</td>
                              <td class="style1" width="64%">&nbsp;</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" width="36%">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
                              <td class="style01" width="64%"><i>&nbsp;(Forming 
                                Committee)</i></td>
                            </tr>
                          </table>
                        </div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2"> 
                        <div align="left">&nbsp;</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style5"> 
                        <div align="left">&nbsp;</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style5"> 
                        <div align="left">Organisation and Coordination Committee</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style1"> 
                        <div align="left">&nbsp;</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td width="69" valign="top" class="style1"> 
                        <div align="left"><b>Chair</b></div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="595"> 
                        <div align="left"> 
                          <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="style1">
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" colspan="2"><b>Agn&egrave;s Beriot</b><br>
                                D&eacute;l&eacute;gu&eacute;e G&eacute;n&eacute;rale 
                                du C.I.D., France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" width="36%">&nbsp;</td>
                              <td class="style1" width="64%">&nbsp;</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" width="36%">Peter Brodnitz</td>
                              <td class="style1" width="64%">Ogilvy &amp; Mather, 
                                Japan </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" width="36%">Jean Louis d'Arc</td>
                              <td class="style1" width="64%">F&eacute;d&eacute;ration 
                                France-Polonge, France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" width="36%">Jean Perri&egrave;re</td>
                              <td class="style1" width="64%">Administrator, Secretary 
                                General, C.I.D., France</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" width="36%">Saryn Rosart</td>
                              <td class="style1" width="64%">CASIS, USA</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" width="36%">Anne Tabutiaux</td>
                              <td class="style1" width="64%">Recherche et Diffusion, 
                                France </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" width="36%">&nbsp;</td>
                              <td class="style1" width="64%">&nbsp;</td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr> 
                              <td class="style1" width="36%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
                              <td class="style01" width="64%"><i>(Final list forthcoming)</i></td>
                            </tr>
                          </table>
                        </div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td class="style5" valign="top" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td width="90" valign="top" class="style1">&nbsp;</td>
                      <td> 
                        <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="style1">
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style5" colspan="2"> 
                              <div align="left">Local Organisation Committee</div>
                            </td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" width="36%">&nbsp;</td>
                            <td class="style1" width="64%">&nbsp;</td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" width="36%"> 
                              <div align="left">Aur&eacute;lia Barri&egrave;re</div>
                            </td>
                            <td class="style1" width="64%"> 
                              <div align="left">Univ. Avignon, France</div>
                            </td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" width="36%"> 
                              <div align="left">St&eacute;phane Igounet</div>
                            </td>
                            <td class="style1" width="64%"> 
                              <div align="left">Univ. Avignon, France</div>
                            </td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" width="36%">&nbsp;</td>
                            <td class="style1" width="64%"></td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" width="36%"><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></td>
                            <td class="style01" width="64%"> 
                              <div align="left"><i>(Final list forthcoming)</i></div>
                            </td>
                          </tr>
                        </table>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td class="style5" valign="top" colspan="2"> 
                        <div align="left">Technical Committee</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td width="90" valign="top" class="style1"> 
                        <div align="left"><b>President</b></div>
                      </td>
                      <td> 
                        <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="style1">
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" colspan="2"> 
                              <div align="left"><b>Luc Boulianne</b><br>
                                C.I.D., Canada</div>
                            </td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" width="39%">&nbsp;</td>
                            <td class="style1" width="61%">&nbsp;</td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" width="39%"> 
                              <div align="left">Jonathan Albert</div>
                            </td>
                            <td class="style1" width="61%"> 
                              <div align="left">C.I.D., Canada</div>
                            </td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" width="39%"> 
                              <div align="left">Max Chevalier</div>
                            </td>
                            <td class="style1" width="61%"> 
                              <div align="left">Univ. Toulouse, France</div>
                            </td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" width="39%"> 
                              <div align="left">Jean-Jacques Guilbart</div>
                            </td>
                            <td class="style1" width="61%"> 
                              <div align="left">Coll&egrave;ge de France, France 
                              </div>
                            </td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" width="39%"> 
                              <div align="left">C&eacute;cile Laffaire</div>
                            </td>
                            <td class="style1" width="61%"> 
                              <div align="left">Univ. Toulouse, France</div>
                            </td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" width="39%">&nbsp;</td>
                            <td class="style1" width="61%">&nbsp;</td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td class="style1" width="39%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
                            <td class="style01" width="61%"> 
                              <div align="left"><i>(Final list forthcoming)</i></div>
                            </td>
                          </tr>
                        </table>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2"> 
                        <div align="left">&nbsp;</div>
                      </td>
                      <td width="10"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr> 
                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td class="style5" valign="top" colspan="2"> 
                        <div align="left">Contact Information</div>
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                      <td width="10"></td>
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                      <td width="10"></td>
                      <td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2"> 
                        <div align="left">&nbsp;</div>
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                      <td width="10"></td>
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                        <blockquote> 
                          <p align="left"><span class="style1">Centre de Hautes 
                            Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire 
                            (C.I.D.)<br>
                            <br>
                            </span>36 bis rue Ballu<br>
                            75009 Paris France<br>
                            Tel: (33 / 0) 1 42 85 04 75<br>
                            Fax: (33 / 0) 1 48 78 49 61</p>
                          <p align="left"> Email: <a href="mailto:information@riao.org">information@le-cid.org</a><br>
                            Web: <a href="http://www.le-cid.org">http://www.le-cid.org</a></p>
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                        <div align="left">Revision: October 11<sup>th</sup>, 2003</div>
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