[topicmapmail] RIAO 2004: Call for Participation - April 26-28, 2004
RIAO 2004
information@riao.org
Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:55:53 UT
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Please find a call for participation to the seventh RIAO
conference.
RIAO 2004 will take place in Avignon "Vaucluse", France
from April 26 to April 28. We look forward to seeing you
there.
Sincerely,
G. Grefenstette, co-chair of the program committee
information@riao.org
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<td width="58%"><div align="center"><span class="large">RIAO'2004</span></div></td>
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<p align="center" class="main_title"><strong>Coupling Approaches, Coupling Media and Coupling Languages <br>
for Information Retrieval </strong></p>
<p align="center" class="large">PROGRAM</p>
<p align="center" class="reg_text">University of Avignon (Vaucluse – France)<br>
26-28 Avril 2004</p>
<p align="center" class="reg_text"><a href="http://www.riao.org" target="_blank"><strong>www.riao.org</strong></a></p>
<p align="left" class="reg_text"><br>
The seventh RIAO conference is organised by:</p>
<p align="center" class="reg_text_bold">CENTRE DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES D'INFORMATIQUE<br>
DOCUMENTAIRE<br>
(C.I.D., France)</p>
<p align="center" class="reg_text"> </p>
<p align="left" class="reg_text">in collaboration with the LIA (Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon - Université d'Avignon)</p>
<p align="left" class="reg_text">with technical support from l'IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse)</p>
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<p class="reg_text">in cooperation with the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) LIST </p>
<p class="reg_text"> </p>
<div id="section">Introduction</div>
<p>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>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>In response to these evolving needs, RIAO'2004 conference will cover 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. Combination of techniques from disparate domains, will 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. </p>
<p>RIAO'2004 presents recent scientific progress in these areas with oral presentations, demonstrations of research prototypes, as well as presenting a selection of innovative products present on the market. </p>
<p>RIAO (which stands for Recherche d'Information Assistée par Ordinateur ) is organized every three years since 1985. Previous RIAO Conferences were held in Grenoble, France (1985), at MIT in Cambridge Massachussetts. USA (1988), in Barcelona, Spain (1991), in New York USA (1994), at Mc Gill, Montreal (1997), and at the Collège de France, Paris (2000) The conference is organized by the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D.) in conjunction with various partners. </p>
<p>This year's conference presents research from 18 different countries, two invited keynote speeches, 13 sessions of oral presentations, a poster session and a session dedicated to cultural applications. The 51 papers presented, 16 posters, and various presentations will give an overview of the state-of-the-art in this rapidly changing domain. </p>
<p>Concurrent to the scientific presentations, a wide variety of innovative applications will be presented by an international selection of companies. Each application was chosen by an Applications Committee using the same criteria of quality and originality as the Scientific Committee for the written scientific communications. </p>
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<tr><td class="programme_day" colspan="2">Monday, April 26</td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">08:00 - 9:30</td> <td class="programme_event">Registration</td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">09:30 - 10:15</td> <td class="programme_event">Welcome from officials</td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">10:15 - 11:00</td> <td class="programme_event">Invited speaker </td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">11:00 - 11:15</td> <td class="programme_event">Coffee break </td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">11:15 - 12:35</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 1: Indexing Video, Sound and Images</td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">The Físchlár-News-Stories System: Personalised Access to an Archive of TV News</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Alan Smeaton, Cathal Gurrin, Hyowon Lee, Kieran McDonald, Noel Murphy, Noel O'Connor,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Dublin City University</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Video Summarization Based on User-Defined Constraints and Preferences</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Vyacheslav Parshin, Liming Chen,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Ecole Central de Lyon, Dept. Mathématique-Informatique</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">The TREC VIdeo Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID): A Case Study and Status Report</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Alan Smeaton,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Dublin City University</span> <span class="programme_authors">Wessel Kraaij,</span> <span class="programme_organization">TNO TPD</span> <span class="programme_authors">Paul Over,</span> <span class="programme_organization">NIST</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">CIMWOS: A Multimedia Retrieval System based on Combined Text, Speech and Image Processing</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Harris Papageorgiou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Lason Demiros, Nikos Hatzigeorgiou, Georges Carayanis,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">12:35 - 13:45</td> <td class="programme_event">Lunch</td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">13:45 - 15:25</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 2: Searching across Languages</td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Multilingual Information Retrieval with Asian Languages</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Jacques Savoy,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Neuchatel</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Transitive CLIR Models</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Wessel Kraaij,</span> <span class="programme_organization">TNO</span> <span class="programme_authors">Franciska de Jong,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Twente</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Interlingual Indexing across Different Languages</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Kornel Marko, Udo Hahn,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Linguistische Informatik</span> <span class="programme_authors">Stefan Schulz, Philipp Daumke,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Medizinische Informatik</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Crossing Languages in Text Retrieval via an Interlingua</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Udo Hahn, Michael Poprat,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Linguistische Informatik</span> <span class="programme_authors">Stefan Schulz, Joachim Wermter, Kronel Marko,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Medizinische Informatik</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Multilingual document clusters discovery</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Benoit Mathieu, Christian Fluhr, Romaric Besançon,</span> <span class="programme_organization">CEA - LIST/LIC2M</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">15:25 - 15:55</td> <td class="programme_event">Break / Demonstrations </td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">15:55 - 16:55</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 3: Searching and Ontologies </td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Ontologies as Background Knowledge to Explore Document Collections</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Aussenac Nathalie, Mothe Josiane,</span> <span class="programme_organization">IRIT</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Learning « Generalization/Specialization » Relations between Concepts - Application for Automatically Building Thematic Document Hierarchies</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Hermine Njike Fotzo, Patrick Gallinari,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Lip6</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Coupling Information Extraction and Data Mining for Ontology Learning in PARMENIDES</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Myra Spiliopoulou,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Magdeburg</span> <span class="programme_authors">Fabio Rinaldi,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Zurich</span> <span class="programme_authors">Bill Black,</span> <span class="programme_organization">UMIST, Manchester</span> <span class="programme_authors">Gian Piero Zarri,</span> <span class="programme_organization">CNRS, Paris</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">16:55 - 17:55</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 4: Niche Web Systems </td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Combinaison de classifieurs pour le filtrage de documents multi-médias à caractère choquant ou dangereux</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Bruno Grilheres,</span> <span class="programme_organization">EADS S&DE/PSI Rouen</span> <span class="programme_authors">Stephan Brunessaux,</span> <span class="programme_organization">EADS S&DE</span> <span class="programme_authors">Philippe Leray,</span> <span class="programme_organization">PSI Rouen</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Coupling Niche Browsers and Affect Analysis</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Gregory Grefenstette, Yan Qu, James G. Shanahan, David A. Evans,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Clairvoyance Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Bilingual PRESRI - Integration of Multiple Research Paper Databases -</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Hidetsugu Nanba,</span> <span class="programme_organization">School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University</span> <span class="programme_authors">Takeshi Abekawa,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology</span> <span class="programme_authors">Manabu Okumura, Suguru Saito,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">17:55 - 18:15</td> <td class="programme_event">Cultural heritage applications </td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Un musée virtuel pour les spécialistes</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Marie-Françoise Clergeau,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Collège de France</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Fabritius : base de données multilingue en ligne pour les Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Pierre-Yves Desaive,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">18:30</td> <td class="programme_event">Cocktail in the "Salle de la grande audience" of the Popes' Palace</td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_day" colspan="2">Tuesday, April 27</td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">09:00 - 09:45</td> <td class="programme_event">Invited speaker </td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">09:45 - 11:05</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 5: Different Methods and Languages for Question Answering </td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">ASKMi: A Japanese Question Answering System based on Semantic Role Analysis</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Tetsuya Sakai, Yoshimi Saito, Yumi Ichimura, Makoto Koyama, Tomoharu Kokubu, Toshihiko Manabe,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Toshiba Corporate R&D Center</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">A Pattern Based Approach to Factoid and Definition Question Answering</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Horacio Saggion, Mark Greenwood,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Sheffield</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Question-Answer Matching : Complementary Methods</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Karine Lavenus, Jens Grivolla, Laurent Gillard, Patrice Bellot,</span> <span class="programme_organization">LIA, Université d'Avignon, France</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">MOQA - Meaning-Oriented Question-Answering</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Jim Cowie,</span> <span class="programme_organization">New Mexico State University, CRL</span> <span class="programme_authors">Sergei Nirenburg,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Maryland, ILIT</span> <span class="programme_authors">Tanya Korelsky,</span> <span class="programme_organization">CoGenTex, Inc.</span> <span class="programme_authors">Stephen Helmreich,</span> <span class="programme_organization">New Mexico State University, CRL</span> <span class="programme_authors">Benoît Lavoie,</span> <span class="programme_organization">CoGenTex, Inc.</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">11:05 - 11:40</td> <td class="programme_event">Break / Demonstrations</td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">11:40 - 13:00</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 6: Image Processing </td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Image Understanding using Domain Knowledge</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Nicolas Zlatoff, Bruno Tellez, Atilla Baskurt,</span> <span class="programme_organization">LIRIS</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Improving CBIR systems by integrating semantic features</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Djamel Brahmi, Djemel Ziou,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Université de Sherbrooke (Canada)</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Automatic generation of natural language description for images.</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Patrick Hede, Pierre-Alain Moëllic, Magali Joint, Joël Bourgeoys, Hubert Naets,</span> <span class="programme_organization">CEA LIST/LIC2M</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Costume: A New Feature for Video Content Indexing</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Gaël Jaffré, Philippe Joly,</span> <span class="programme_organization">IRIT</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">13:00 - 14:30</td> <td class="programme_event"> Lunch</td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">14:30 - 15:50</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 7 (parallel session): Cooperative Searching andusers</td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Group Memory Based on the Task Information</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Jonathan Yu, James Thom,</span> <span class="programme_organization">RMIT University</span> <span class="programme_authors">Leila Alem,</span> <span class="programme_organization">CSIRO</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">BINGO! and DAFFODIL: Personalized Exploration of Digital Libraries and Web Sources</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Martin Theobald,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Max-Planck Institut für Informatik</span> <span class="programme_authors">Claus-Peter Klas,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Universität Duisburg</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">The Generalized Web Surfer</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Ayman Farahat, Francine Chen,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Palo Alto Research Center</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Improving Ontology-Based User Profiles</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Joana Trajkova, Susan Gauch,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Kansas</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">14:30 - 15:50</td> <td class="programme_event">Poster session (parallel session) </td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">OWL-based reasoning with retractable inference</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Carlo Jelmini, Stephane Marchand-Maillet,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Viper Group - University of Geneva</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Browsing and searching e-encyclopaedias</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Ruth Wilson, Julie Shortreed, Monica Landoni,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Strathclyde</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">An Experiment with Ontology Mapping using Concept Similarity</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Robert Villa, Ruth Wilson, Fabio Crestani,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Strathclyde</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Coupling OWL with MPEG-7 and TV-Anytime for Domain-specific Multimedia Information Integration and Retrieval</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Chrisa Tsinaraki, Panagiotis Polydoros, Nektarios Moumoutzis, Stavros Christodoulakis,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Lab. of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications (MUSIC/TUC)</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Speaker segments regroupment</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Liming Chen, Aliaksandr Paradzinets,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Ecole Centrale de Lyon</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Rich Document Representation for Document Clustering</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Azam Jalali, Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong in Dubai</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Audio Documents Analysis And Indexing: Entropy And Dynamism Criteria</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Liming Chen,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Dept. Mathématiques Informatique, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France</span> <span class="programme_authors">Eugeny Bovbel, Hanna Lukashevich,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Department of Radiophysics, Byelorussian</span> <span class="programme_authors">Denis Mitrofanov,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Department of Radiophysics, Byelorussian State University, Belarus</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Suivi du Locuteur dans des Discours Multimédia</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Halim Sayoud, Siham Ouamour,</span> <span class="programme_organization">USTHB</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Information retrieval on mixed written and spoken documents</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Benoit Favre, Patrice Bellot, Jean-François Bonastre,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Modélisation de connaissances et fouille d’informations par la cartographie dynamique : application de veille technologique avec Matheo Analyzer</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Mylene Leitzelman, H Dou, J Kister,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Faculte Sciences et Techniques de St-Jérôme</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Improving the Precision of a Closed-Domain Question-Answering System with Semantic Information</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Hai Doan-Nguyen, Leila Kosseim,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Department of Computer Science, Concordia University</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Retrieving what's relevant in audio and video: statistics and linguistics in combination</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Anthony Davis,Phil Rennert, Robert Rubinoff, Tim Sibley, Evelyne Tzoukermann</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">StreamSageToward Tacit Information Retrieval</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Daniel Memmi,</span> <span class="programme_organization">IMAG Grenoble</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Automating Indexing of Classes and Conferences</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Jean-Claude Moissinac, François Yvon, Slim Ben Hazez,</span> <span class="programme_organization">GET/ENST</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Indexation automatique de documents par combinaison d'analyses statistiques et terminologiques structurées</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Lyne Da Sylva,</span> <span class="programme_organization">École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, Université de Montréal</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Information Retrieval and Extraction from the Web: the CROSSMARC approach</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine Spyropoulos,</span> <span class="programme_organization">NCSR "Demokritos", Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">15:50 - 16:10</td> <td class="programme_event">Break / demonstrations </td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">16:10 - 17:30</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 8 (parallel session): User Searching, Studies and Aids </td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Subject knowledge, thesaurus-assisted query expansion and search success</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Anne Sihvonen, Pertti Vakkari,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Tampere</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Fetch: A Personalised Information Retrieval Tool</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Innes Martin, Joemon Jose,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Glasgow</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Interfaces dynamiques de fouille textuelles</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Javier Couto, Jean-Luc Minel,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Laboratoire LaLICC, CNRS-Université Paris-Sorbonne</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Feedback Mechanisms for a Natural Language Interface: An Application of the Critic Paradigm</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Johannes Leveling,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Fern Universität in Hagen</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">16:10 - 17:10</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 9 (parallel session): New views on Relevance </td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Improving the Relevance-based Superimposition model for IR with automatic keyword extraction</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Teruhito Kanazawa,</span> <span class="programme_organization">KYA group</span> <span class="programme_authors">Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi,</span> <span class="programme_organization">National Institute of Informatics</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Evaluation of Retrieval Systems without Predefined Retrieval Unit</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Arjen de Vries,</span> <span class="programme_organization">CWI</span> <span class="programme_authors">Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Queen Mary University London</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Monitoring user-system performance in interactive retrieval tasks</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Liudmila Boldareva,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Twente (UT)</span> <span class="programme_authors">Arjen de Vries,</span> <span class="programme_organization">National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)</span> <span class="programme_authors">Djoerd Hiemstra,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Twente (UT)</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">17:30 - 18:30</td> <td class="programme_event">Conference given by Michel Laclotte, Directeur Général honoraire of the Louvre Museum « L'École d'Avignon, Deux Siècles de Peinture »</td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">19:00</td> <td class="programme_event">Guided tour of the "Palais des Papes"</td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">20:15</td> <td class="programme_event">Conference Dinner</td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_day" colspan="2">Wednesday, April 28 </td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">09:30 - 10:50</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 10: Mono and Multilingual Term Variation </td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Mining textual data through term variant clustering : the TermWatch system</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan,</span> <span class="programme_organization">ERSICOM - Université de Lyon 3</span> <span class="programme_authors">Eric Sanjuan,</span> <span class="programme_organization">LITA - Université de Metz</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Knowledge Acquisition from Collections of News Articles to Cross-Language Information Retrieval</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Fatiha Sadat,</span> <span class="programme_organization">National Institute of Informatics (NII)</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Chinese character expansion for retrieving Japanese paraphrases</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Takenobu Tokunaga, Yoshiki Tezuka, Hozumi Tanaka,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Tokyo Institute of Technology</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Cross-Language Image Retrieval via Spoken Query</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Wen-Cheng Lin, Ming-Shun Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">10:50 - 11:15</td> <td class="programme_event">Break / demonstrations</td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">11:15 - 12:35</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 11: Conceptual, Structural Retrieval, XML </td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Source Code Retrieval using Conceptual Similarity</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke,</span> <span class="programme_organization">ILLC, University of Amsterdam</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Multimodal Indexation of Contrastive Structures in Geographical Documents</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Antoine Widlöcher, Eric Faurot, Frédérik Bilhaut,</span> <span class="programme_organization">GREYC - Université Caën</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Integrating XLink and XPath to Retrieve Structured Multimedia Documents in Digital Libraries</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Zhigang Kong, Mounia Lalmas,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Using XML to Query XML - From Theory to Practice</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Andrei Broder,</span> <span class="programme_organization">IBM T.J. Watson Research Center</span> <span class="programme_authors">Yoelle Maarek, Yosi Mass, Matan Mandelbrod,</span> <span class="programme_organization">IBM Haifa Research Lab</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">12:35 - 14:00</td> <td class="programme_event">Lunch </td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">14:00 - 15:40</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 12: Topic Discovery, Segmentation </td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Summarizing Texts at Various Levels of Detail</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Marie-Francine Moens, Roxana Angheluta , Rik De Busser, Patrick Jeuniaux,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Katholieke Universiteit Leuven</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Selective Combination of Evidence for Topic Distillation using Document and Aggregate-level Information</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of Glasgow</span> <span class="programme_authors">Fidel Cacheda,</span> <span class="programme_organization">University of A Coruna</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Comparing algorithms for French linear segmentation</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Laurianne Sitbon, Patrice Bellot,</span> <span class="programme_organization">LIA, Université d'Avignon, France</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Tagging Well-known Arabic Names to Support Question-Answering Systems</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Saleem Abuleil,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Chicago State University</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Unsupervised Learning with Term Clustering for Thematic Segmentation of Texts</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Marc Caillet, Jean-François Pessiot, Massih-Reza Amini, Patrick Gallinari,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">15:40 - 15:50</td> <td class="programme_event">Break </td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">15:50 - 17:00</td> <td class="programme_event">Session 13: Improving Retrieval </td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Combining Positive and Negative Query Feedback in Passage Retrieval</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Dkaki Taoufiq, Mothe Josiane,</span> <span class="programme_organization">IRIT</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Latent Semantic Indexing with a Variable Number of Orthogonal Factors</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Georges Dupret</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">Word Pairs in Language Modeling for Information Retrieval</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Carmen Alvarez, Philippe Langlais, Jian-Yun Nie,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Université de Montréal</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td></td> <td><span class="programme_presentation"><span class="programme_title">A Query-based Pre-retrieval Model Selection Approach to Information Retrieval</span><p class="programme_authorg"><span class="programme_authors">Ben He, Iadh Ounis,</span> <span class="programme_organization">Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow</span></p></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="programme_event">17:00 - 17:30</td> <td class="programme_event">Closing session </td></tr>
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<div id="section">Innovative Applications</div>
<p>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 demonstration spaces. </p>
<p>The selection of the innovative applications and products is not finished. The list of accepted ones will be soon available on the RIAO web site </p>
<p>Applications and products will be chosen among the following topics: </p>
<ul>
<li>Multimedia indexing and retrieval systems (text, sound, speech, images, video) </li>
<li> Cross-lingual indexing and retrieval systems </li>
<li>Peer-to-peer text search engines </li>
<li> Cooperative Information Retrieval (grids) </li>
<li>Automatic XML structuring of documents </li>
<li> Automatic metadata generation for text, sound, and images, automatic annotators </li>
<li> Automated ontology construction and annotators </li>
<li>Topic detection and event detection in streaming documents, technology watch, strategy watch </li>
<li> Intelligent message filtering </li>
<li>Intelligent text agents </li>
<li> Parent control and anti-spam control by content filtering </li>
<li> E-learning - response interpretation </li>
<li> Document summarisation -- mono or multilingual, mono or multidocument, profile driven </li>
<li> Topic maps </li>
<li> Domain-specific application of information retrieval and multimedia retrieval: medicine, e-commerce, computer-assisted teaching, video production, etc </li>
</ul>
<p>Demonstrations will be organized all along the conference and short oral presentations will be held in parallel sessions, Monday afternoon (13:45 - 15:25 and 16:55 - 17:55) </p>
<div id="section">
<p>Committees </p>
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<div align="left"><strong>Program Committee</strong></div></td>
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<div align="left"><b>Co-Chairs</b></div></td>
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<td width="178"><b>Christian Fluhr</b><br>
CEA, France<br>
<em class="style01">Europe, Africa</em> </td>
<td width="177"><strong>Gregory Grefenstette<br>
</strong> Clairvoyance<br>
<em class="style01">Asia, Oceania</em> </td>
<td width="177"><b>Bruce Croft</b><br>
Univ. of Mass, Amherst, USA<br>
<em class="style01">Americas</em></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Bruno Bachimont</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Tech. Univ. of Compiègne </div></td>
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<div align="left">Catherine Berrut</div></td>
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<div align="left">IMAG, France</div></td>
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<div align="left">Georges Carayanis</div></td>
<td><div align="left">ILSP, Greece </div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Francine Chen</div></td>
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<div align="left">PARC, USA</div></td>
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<div align="left">Claude Chrisment</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">IRIT, Toulouse, France</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Roger Dannenberg </div></td>
<td><div align="left">CMU, USA </div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Franciska de Jong</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Twente, Netherlands</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Claude de Loupy</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Sinequa, France</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Renato De Mori</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Avignon, France</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Marc El-Bèze</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Avignon, France</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Pascale Fung</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Scienc. Tech. Univ., Hong Kong</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Sadaoki Furui</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Jean-Luc Gauvain</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">LIMSI, France</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Edouard Geoffrois</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">DGA - CTA/CIP, France</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Julio Gonzalo</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">UNED, Spain</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Donna Harman</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">NIST, USA</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">David Hawking</div></td>
<td><div align="left">CSIRO, Australia</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Ulrich Heid</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Stuttgart, Germany</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Eduard Hovy</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">ISI, Univ. S. California, USA</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Christian Jacquemin</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">LIMSI, France</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Boris Katz</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">MIT, USA</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Elisabeth Liddy</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Syracuse, USA</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Simone Marinai</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Florence, Italy</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">José Martinez</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Nantes, France</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Christof Monz</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Frank Nack</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">CWI, Netherlands</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Chahab Nastar</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">LTU, France</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Jian-Yun Nie</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Montréal, Canada</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Douglas Oard</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Maryland, USA</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Jörg Ontrup</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Bielefeld, Germany</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Gabriella Pasi</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Milano, Italy</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Marie Theresa Pazienza</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Roma, Italy</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Carol Peters</div></td>
<td><div align="left">CNR, Italy </div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Euripides Petrakis</div></td>
<td><div align="left">Tech. Univ. of Crete, Greece</div></td>
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<td><div align="left">Marc Pic</div></td>
<td><div align="left">Advestigo, France</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Jean-Marie Pierrel</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">INALF, France</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Jean-Marie Pinon</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">INSA Lyon, France</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Yan Qu</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Clairvoyance, USA</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Steve Renals</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Sheffield, Great Britain</div></td>
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<td>
<div align="left">Tetsuya Sakai</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Toshiba, Japan</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="left">Frédérique Segond</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Xerox, France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="left">Bernadette Sharp</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Staffordshire, Great Britain</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="left">Alan Smeaton</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Dublin, Ireland</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="left">Tokunaga Takenobu</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="left">Simone Teufel</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Cambridge, Great Britain</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="left">Evelyne Tzoukermann</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">ACM, USA</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="left">Alex van Ballegooij</div></td>
<td><div align="left">CWI, Netherlands </div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="left">Keith Van Rijsbergen</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Glasgow, Great Britain</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="left">James Z. Wang</div></td>
<td><div align="left">PennState Univ., USA </div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="left">Ross Wilkinson</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">CSIRO, Australia</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="left">Zhiping Zheng</div></td>
<td>
<div align="left">Univ. Saarland, Germany</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>
<div align="left"></div></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="90" valign="top" class="style1"> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style5"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style5">
<div align="left">Applications Committee</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style1"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="90" valign="top" class="style1">
<div align="left"><b>Chair</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>Chantal Soulé-Dupuy</b><br>
Université de Toulouse, France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%"> </td>
<td class="style1" width="64%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Michel Benoit</div></td>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Sté Itek, France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Robert Bentz</div></td>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Xerox Global Services, France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Marie-Françoise Clergeau</div></td>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Collège de France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Daniel Confland</div></td>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Jouve, France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Max Copperman</div></td>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Kanisa, USA</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Michel Dureigne</div></td>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">EADS, France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Bernard Dousset</div></td>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Irit, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Péré Escorsa</div></td>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Univ. Polytechnic de Catalunya, Spain</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Muriel Foulonneau</div></td>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Relais Culture Europe, France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Christine Jacquet-Pfau</div></td>
<td class="style1"><div align="left">Collège de France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Dominique Ladiray</div></td>
<td class="style1"><div align="left">Insee-Ensac Statistics, Canada</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Ornella Mich</div></td>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Inst. Trentino di Cultura, Italy </div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Norbert Paquel</div></td>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Canope, France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1"> </td>
<td class="style1"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%"> </td>
<td class="style1" width="64%">
<div align="left" class="style01"><i class="style01"> </i></div></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style5"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style5">
<div align="left">Organisation and Coordination Committee</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top" class="style1"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="90" valign="top" class="style1">
<div align="left"><b>Chair</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>Agnès Beriot</b><br>
Déléguée Générale du C.I.D., France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%"> </td>
<td class="style1" width="64%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1">
<div align="left">Henriette Allignon</div></td>
<td class="style1"><div align="left">C.I.D., France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%">
<div align="left">Peter Brodnitz</div></td>
<td class="style1" width="64%">
<div align="left">Ogilvy & Mather, Japan </div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%">
<div align="left">Jean Louis d'Arc</div></td>
<td class="style1" width="64%">
<div align="left">Fédération France-Poland, France </div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%">
<div align="left">Jean Perrière</div></td>
<td class="style1" width="64%">
<div align="left">Administrator, Secretary General, C.I.D., France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%">
<div align="left">Sharyn Rosart</div></td>
<td class="style1" width="64%">
<div align="left">CASIS, USA</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%">
<div align="left">Anne Tabutiaux</div></td>
<td class="style1" width="64%">
<div align="left">Recherche et Diffusion, France </div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%"> </td>
<td class="style01" width="64%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%"> </td>
<td class="style01" width="64%">
<div align="left"></div></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="90" valign="top" class="style1"> </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%"> </td>
<td class="style1" width="64%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%">
<div align="left">Aurélia Barrière</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">Stéphane Igounet</div></td>
<td class="style1" width="64%">
<div align="left">Univ. Avignon, France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%"> </td>
<td class="style1" width="64%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%"> </td>
<td class="style01" width="64%">
<div align="left"><i>(Final list forthcoming)</i></div></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style5" valign="top" colspan="2">
<div align="left">Technical Committee</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" valign="top" colspan="2"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="90" valign="top" class="style1">
<div align="left"><b>Chair</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="36%"> </td>
<td class="style1" width="64%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%">
<div align="left">Jonathan Albert</div></td>
<td class="style1" width="64%">
<div align="left">C.I.D., Canada</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%">
<div align="left">Max Chevalier</div></td>
<td class="style1" width="64%">
<div align="left">Univ. Toulouse, France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%">
<div align="left">Jean-Jacques Guilbart</div></td>
<td class="style1" width="64%">
<div align="left">Collège de France, France </div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%">
<div align="left">Cécile Laffaire</div></td>
<td class="style1" width="64%">
<div align="left">Univ. Toulouse, France</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%"> </td>
<td class="style1" width="64%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style1" width="36%"> </td>
<td class="style01" width="64%">
<div align="left"></div></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>
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<div id="section"> Registration </div>
<p><strong>Registration fees: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>370 euros for early registration received until April 1, 2004 </li>
<li>430 euros registration after April 1, 2004 </li>
<li>320 euros early registration for CID members until April 1, 2004 </li>
<li>430 euros registration for CID members after April 1, 2004 </li>
</ul>
<p>Registration includes admission to all conference sessions, to prototype and product demonstrations, to coffee breaks, and to the Tuesday night conference dinner. It is possible to reserve extra places at this dinner for 25 euros per person. </p>
<p><strong>Student fees: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>170 euros for early registration received until April 1, 2004 </li>
<li>200 euros registration after April 1, 2004 </li>
</ul>
<p>Student registration includes admission to all conference sessions, to prototype and product demonstrations, to coffee breaks, but not to the Tuesday night conference dinner. Students can reserve a place at this dinner for 25 euros per person. </p>
<p><strong>Registration instructions: </strong></p>
<p>Please register using the secured payment facilities found on our web site <a href="http://www.riao.org/" target="_blank">http://www.riao.org/</a>. </p>
<p>It is also possible to pay by bank transfer to the following account: </p>
<blockquote>
<p>Name : CID <br>
Bank : Société Générale <br>
Branch : Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France <br>
Account Number : 000 50 06 5481 Rib 06 <br>
Bank Number : 30003 <br>
Branch Number : 03120 <br>
IBAN : FR76 30003 03120 000500065481 06 <br>
BIC : SOGEFRPP </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Payment by check in euros will also be accepted. In this case send your check made out the "C.I.D." along with registration information (as found on the web site) to </p>
<blockquote>
<p>CID <br>
Congrès RIAO'2004 <br>
36 bis rue Ballu <br>
75009 Paris <br>
France </p>
<p><strong><em>Note: Registration can be canceled (with a 90% reimbursement of registration fees) until April 5, 2004. After this date no reimbursement will be possible. </em></strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Final Registration: </strong></p>
<p>It will also be possible to register and pay registration fees on Sunday evening April 25 at the</p>
<blockquote>
<p> Hotel DANIELI<br>
17 rue de la République<br>
84000 Avignon </p>
</blockquote>
<p> between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. and on-site on Monday April 26 from 8 a.m. It is nonetheless strongly advised to pre-register in order to avoid long lines the first morning, and to take advantage of the reduced early registration fees before April 1, 2004. </p>
<p>Each participant must check-in on-site before the conference at the University of Avignon, to receive their badge, the printed proceedings of the conference and the final program. </p>
<p><strong>Conference Dinner: </strong></p>
<p>The conference dinner will be held at the:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"Grenier à Sel" <br>
2, rue du Rempart Saint-Lazare, <br>
84000 Avignon<br>
(33) (0) 4 90 27 09 09<br>
<a href="http://www.grenieraselavignon.com" target="_blank">http://www.grenieraselavignon.com</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p> A map will be distributed at the conferemce. </p>
<p><strong>Language: </strong></p>
<p>The working language of the conference will be English. In accordance with the French law, it will be possible, nonetheless, to present one's communication in French. </p>
<p><strong>Tutorial : </strong></p>
<p>Google scientists Vibu Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, and Mehran Sahami plan a tutorial on Web Information Retrieval for Sunday before the conference. This tutorial will be held if a sufficient number of people enroll. Details can be found on the RIAO web site - <a href="http://www.riao.org" target="_blank">http://www.riao.org</a></p>
<p><strong>Conference Address: </strong></p>
<blockquote>
<p>University of Avignon<br>
74, rue Pasteur<br>
Avignon </p>
</blockquote>
<div id="section"> Hôtels </div>
<p>Rooms have been reserved in a number of local hotels until April 1st, 2004. We recommend that you reserve a room as early as possible. Avignon is very active at the time of the conference. A hotel list is available on the RIAO web site.</p>
<div id="section"> Transport </div>
<p>If you are arriving in Paris at the Paris-Roisy Charles de Gaulle airport, you can take a direct high-speed train to Avignon. Check times online at <a href="http://www.sncf.com/indexe.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sncf.com/indexe.htm </a>. A shuttle leaves from the Avignon-TGV station to downtown Avignon. </p>
<p>If you are arriving in Paris at the Orly airport, there are direct flights to Avignon (aéroport national) except on Sundays. </p>
Marseille-Marignane is an international airport situated 70 kms from Avignon. You might find a connection arriving there. If you are planning to come through Marseilles, please notify the conference organizers at <a href="mailto:informations@le-cid.org">informations@le-cid.org </a> telling us when you are arriving and we might be able to organize a shuttle to Avignon.
<p></p>
<div id="section"> <strong>Information</strong></div>
<blockquote>
<p>Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D.) <br>
<br>
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<br>
<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:information@le-cid.org">information@le-cid.org</a>
<br>
Web: <a href="http://www.riao.org" target="_blank">http://www.riao.org</a></p>
</blockquote>
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