CDL: RIAO Conference announcement

From: John P. Abbott <AbbottJP_at_appstate.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:58:24 -0400
To: Colldv-l <COLLDV-L_at_usc.edu>

8th RIAO International Conference Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content

From: Alessandro Launaro <alessandro.launaro_at_isti.cnr.it>

Pittsburgh: Eighth RIAO International Conference Large-Scale Semantic 
Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound) May 30 to June 1, 
2007, Carnegie Mellon University http://www.riao.org


SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

Recent scientific advances in information retrieval: presentations, 
posters, demonstrations of research prototypes as well as selected 
cutting-edge innovative products


Chairs: David A Evans (Americas), Sadaoki Furui (Asia), Chantal 
Soulé-Dupuy (Europe)

PROGRAM            WEDNESDAY MAY 30, 2007

Wed 8:00-9:00 am Registration

Wed 9:00-10:00 am Opening Session

Wed 10:00-10:45 am Invited Speaker Donna Harman–NIST, USA It's time to 
move on Wed 11:00-12:15 am Session 1 VIDEO AND LOG RETRIEVAL

Pic-A-Topic: Efficient Viewing of Informative TV Contents on Travel, 
Cooking, Food and More

      Tetsuya Sakai, Toshiba/NewsWatch–Japan, Tatsuya Uehara, Taishi 
  Shimomori, Makoto Koyama, Mika Fukui, Toshiba–Japan

Multimodal Segmentation of Lifelog Data

      Aiden R Doherty, Alan F Smeaton, CDVP, Dublin City Univ–Ireland, 
Keansub Lee, Daniel PW Ellis, LabROSA, Columbia Univ–USA

SportsAnno: What Do You Think?

      James Lanagan, Alan F Smeaton, CDVP, Dublin City Univ–Ireland 
Wed 1:30-3:10 pm Session 2 SOUND AND MUSIC RETRIEVAL

ORCHIVE: Digitizing and Analyzing Orca Vocalizations

      George Tzanetakis, Mathieu Lagrange, Univ of Victoria–Canada, 
Paul Spong, Helena Symonds, Orcalab–Canada Optimizations of Local 
Edition for Evaluating Similarity Between Monophonic Musical Sequences

       Pierre Hanna, Pascal Ferraro, LaBRI, Bordeaux 1 Univ–France 
Multi-Modal Music Information Retrieval-Visualisation and Evaluation 
of Clusterings by Both Audio and Lyrics

      Robert Neumayer, Andreas Rauber, Vienna Univ of 
Technology–Austria Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Summarization

      Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology–Japan Wed 3:10-3:40 
pm Break and Demonstrations Wed 3:40-5:40 pm POSTER SESSION 1 Semantic 
Domains and Supersense Tagging for Domain-Specific Ontology Learning

      Davide Picca, Univ of Lausanne–Switzerland Unified Access to 
Heterogeneous Data in Cultural Heritage

      Marijn Koolen, Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Univ of Amsterdam–the 
Netherlands, Vincent de Keijzer, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague–the 
Netherlands, Nir Nussbaum, Univ of Amsterdam–the Netherlands An 
approach to Multi-Lingual Text Summarization

      Alkesh Patel, Tanveer Siddiqui, Umashankar Tiwary, Indian 
Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad–India Cross-Media 
Entity Recognition in Nearly Parallel Visual and Textual Documents

       Koen Deschacht, Marie-Francine Moens, Wouter Robeyns, 
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven–Belgium Query Refinement based on 
Topical Term Clustering

       Hiromi Wakaki, The Univ of Tokyo–Japan, Tomonari Masada, 
Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi, National Institute of Informatics, The 
Univ of Tokyo–Japan Discriminative Fields for Modeling Semantic 
Concepts in Video

       Ming-yu Chen, Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon Univ–USA 
Multi-modal Interview Concept Detection for Rushes Exploitation

       Anan Liu, Tianjin Univ, Chinese Academy of Sciences–China, Li 
Jintao, Zhang Yongdong, Tang Sheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences–China, 
Yang Zhaoxuan, Tianjin Univ, Chinese Academy of Sciences–China Query 
clustering to decide the best system to use

       Désiré Kompaoré, IRIT, Toulouse 3 Univ, Josiane Mothe, IRIT, 
IUFM, Alain Baccini, Sébastien Dejean, LSP, Toulouse Univ–France An IE 
and IR Approach to deal with Geographic Information Scope in Textual 
Documents

       Christian Sallaberry, LIUPPA, Pau Univ–France, Mustapha Baziz, 
IRIT, LIUPPA, Pau Univ–France, Julien

       Lesbegueries, Mauro Gaio, LIUPPA, Pau Univ–France 
Comprehensible and Accurate Cluster Labels in Text Clustering

       Jerzy Stefanowski, Dawid Weiss, Poznan Univ of 
Technology–Poland Summarizing non-textual events with 'Briefing' focus

       Mohit Kumar, Dipanjan Das, Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon 
Univ–USA A Robust Linguistic Platform for Efficient and Domain 
specific Web Content Analysis

       Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko, Thierry Poibeau, Sophie 
Aubin, Julien Derivire, LIPN, Paris 13 Univ–France Effectiveness of 
Rich Document Representation in XML Retrieval

       Fahimeh Raja, Mostafa Keikha, Maseud Rahgozar, Univ of 
Teheran–Iran, Farhad Oroumchian, Univ of Wollongong–Dubai Expanding a 
Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments

       Anna Ritchie, Univ of Cambridge–UK, Stephen Robertson, 
Microsoft Research Ltd–UK, Simone Teufel, Univ of Cambridge–UK

XQuery++: a graphical querying language for XML semi-structured data

       Ikram Amous, Anis Jedidi, Faiez Gargouri, LARIM, Sfax–Tunisia, 
Florence Sèdes, IRIT, Toulouse 3 Univ–France Structured Audio Player: 
Supporting Radio Archive Workflows with Automatically Generated 
Structure Metadata

       Martha Larson, ISLA, Univ of Amsterdam–the Netherlands, Joachim 
Köhler, Fraunhofer IAIS–Germany Evaluating A Personal Information 
Assistant

       Ioannis Psarras, Joemon Jose, Glasgow Univ–UK Wed 05:40-06:30 
pm Session 3 TEXTUAL QUERIES AND SEARCH 1 Selecting Automatically the 
Best Query Translations

       Pierre-Yves Berger, Jacques Savoy, Univ of 
Neuchatel–Switzerland An Information Retrieval Driven by Ontology: 
from Query to Document Expansion

       Mustapha Baziz, IRIT, LIUPPA Pau Univ–France, Mohand Boughanem, 
IRIT, Toulouse 3 Univ–France, Gabriella Pasi, Università degli Studi 
di Milano Bicocca–Italy, Henri Prade, IRIT–France THURSDAY MAY 31, 
2007 Thu 9:00-9:45 am Invited Speaker Alan Smeaton–Dublin City Univ, 
Ireland  "Bridging the Molecular-Digital Divide: Instrumented Living 
Rooms and Social Media"

Thu 9:45-10:35 am Session 4 TEXTUAL QUERIES AND SEARCH 2 Modeling 
Information Scent: A Comparison of LSA, PMI and GLSA Similarity 
Measures on Common Tests and Corpora

       Raluca Budiu, Christiaan Royer, Peter Pirolli, Palo Alto 
Research Center–USA Investigating Retrieval Performance with 
Manually-Built Topic Models

       Xing Wei, W Bruce Croft, Univ of Massachusetts Amherst–USA Thu 
10:35-11:00 am Break and Demonstrations Thu 11:00-12:40 pm Session 5 
MODELING LANGUAGE AND SEARCH Document frequency and term specificity

       Hideo Joho, Univ of Glasgow–UK, Mark Sanderson, Univ of 
Sheffield–UK Context Based Word Prediction for Texting Language

       Sachin Agarwal, Shilpa Arora, Carnegie Mellon Univ–USA 
Combining linguistic indexes to improve the performances of 
information retrieval systems: a machine learning based solution

       Fabienne Moreau, Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sébillot, IRISA, 
Rennes Univ–France Using Markov Chains to Exploit Word Relationships 
in Information Retrieval

       Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai, Univ of Montreal–Canada 
Thu 1:30-3:30 pm APPLICATIONS SESSION Thu 3:30-4:00 pm Break and 
Demonstrations Thu 4:00-5:15 pm Session 6 XML IN RETRIEVAL A Survey on 
XML Focussed Component Retrieval

       Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem, IRIT, Toulouse 3 
Univ–France XML Fragments Extended with Database Operators

       Yosi Mass, Dafna Sheinwald, Benjamin Sznajder, Sivan Yogev, IBM 
Research Laboratory in Haifa–Israel From Layout to Semantic: a 
Reranking Model for Mapping Web Documents to Mediated XML Representations

       Guillaume Wisniewski, Patrick Gallinari, LIP6, Paris 6– France 
Thu 5:15-6:05 pm Session 7 IMAGE RETRIEVAL 1 Similarity Beyond 
Distance Measurement

       Feng Kang, Rong Jin, Michigan State Univ–USA, Steven Hoi, Hong 
Kong Chinese Univ–China Image Retrieval Using a Multilingual Ontology

       Adrian Popescu, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique–France FRIDAY 
JUNE 1, 2007 Fri 9:00-10:40 am Session 8 PEER-TO-PEER AND WEB SEARCH A 
Co-operative Web Services Paradigm for Supporting Crawlers

       Aravind Chandramouli, Susan Gauch, Univ of Kansas–USA 
Content-Based Peer-to-Peer Network Overlay for Full-Text Federated Search

       Jie Lu, Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon Univ–USA Homepage Finding 
in Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Networks

       Enrico Bragante, Massimo Melucci, Univ of Padua–Italy 
Collective Annotation: Perspectives for Information Retrieval Improvement

       Guillaume Cabanac, IRIT–France, Max Chevalier, IRIT, LGC, 
Toulouse 3 Univ–France, Claude Chrisment, Christine Julien, IRIT, 
Toulouse 3 Univ–France Fri 10:40-11:10 am Break and Demonstrations Fri 
11:10-12:00 am Session 9 IMAGE RETRIEVAL 2 Toward Content-based 
Indexing and Retrieval of Functional Brain Images

       Bing Bai, Paul Kantor, Nicu Cornea, Deborah Silver, Rutgers 
Univ–USA Using the Knowledge of Object Colors to Segment Images and 
Improve Web Image Search

       Christophe Millet, CEA-LIST–France, Isabelle Bloch, 
GET-ENST–France Fri 1:00-2:40 pm Session 10 LINKS, PRIOR INFORMATION 
IN SEARCH Relevance Propagation Model for Large Hypertext Documents 
Collections

       Idir Chibane, Bich-Lien Doan, SUPÉLEC–France Combination of 
Document Priors in Web Information Retrieval

       Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis, Univ of 
Glasgow–UK Contextual Search Using Ontology-Based User Profiles

       Vishnu Challam, Microsoft Corporation–USA, Susan Gauch, Aravind 
Chandramouli, Univ of Kansas–USA Evidence-Based Information Extraction 
for High Accuracy Citation and Author Name Identification

       Brett Powley, Robert Dale, Macquarie Univ–Australia Fri 
2:40-4:00 pm POSTER SESSION 2 Extracting Useful Information from the 
Full Text of Fiction

       Sharon Givon, Maria Milosavljevic, Univ of Edinburgh–UK 
Ontology-Aided vs Keyword-Based Web Searches: A Statistical 
Comparative Analysis

       Magdi Kamel, Ann Lee, Ed Powers, Naval Postgraduate School, 
Monterey–USA Smart Qualitative Data (SQUAD): Information Extraction in 
a Large Document Archive

       Maria Milosavljevic, Claire Grover, Univ of Edinburgh–UK, 
Louise Corti, Univ of Essex–UK Indexing Low Frequency Information for 
Answering Complex Questions

       Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri, Julien Dubuc, Leila Kosseim, 
Sabine Bergler, CLaC laboratory, Concordia Univ–Canada Using Prior 
Information Derived from Citations in Literature Search

       Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, Univ of Amsterdam–the Netherlands 
Information Retrieval Techniques for Templated Queries

       Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan, Univ of Massachusetts 
Amherst–USA Discovering Missing Values in Semi-Structured Databases

       Xing Yi, James Allan, Victor Lavrenko, Univ of Massachusetts 
Amherst–USA Audio Feature Engineering for Automatic Music Genre 
Classification

       Paolo Annesi, Roberto Basili, Raffaele Gitto, Alessandro 
Moschitti, Riccardo Petitti, Univ of Rome Tor Vergata–Italy Exploring 
Interactive Information Retrieval: An Integrated Approach to Interface 
Design and Interaction Analysis

       Gheorghe Muresan, Rutgers Univ–USA Construction of Vietnamese 
Corpora

       Thao Pham Thi Xuan, Faculty of Computer Sciences, Univ of 
Information Technology-VNU of HCMC Vietnam–Vietnam, Ai Kawazoe, 
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo–Japan, Dien Dinh, Faculty of 
Information Technology, Univ of Natural Sciences-VNU of HCMC 
Vietnam–Vietnam, Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, 
Tokyo–Japan, Tri Tran Quoc, Faculty of Computer Sciences, Univ of 
Information Technology-VNU of HCMC Vietnam–Vietnam Using a 
Content-and-Structure Oriented Method for Relevance Feedback in XML 
Retrieval

       Lobna Hlaoua, Mohand Boughanem, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, IRIT, 
Toulouse 3 Univ–France Research Methodology in Studies of Information 
Retrieval Evaluation

       Ben Carterette, James Allan, Univ of Massachusetts Amherst–USA 
Fri 4:00-4:30 pm Break and Demonstrations Fri 4:30-5:45 pm Session 11 
QUESTION ANSWERING, FACTS, AND SUMMARIES Logical Validation, Answer 
Merging and Witness Selection–A Study in Multi-Stream Question Answering

       Ingo Glöckner, Sven Hartrumpf, Johannes Leveling, Univ of 
Hagen–Germany Estimating Importance Features for Fact Mining (With a 
Case Study in Biography Mining)

       Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Maarten de Rijke, Informatics Institute, 
Univ of Amsterdam–the Netherlands Capturing Sentence Prior for 
Query-Based Multi-Document Summarization

       Prasad Pingali, International Institute of Information 
Technology–India, Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Microsoft–USA Fri 5:45-6:30 
pm Concluding Ceremony





METIOREW – University of Málaga

Cleopatra – National Research Council

MOMINDUM Base– MOMINDUM

Vertical sorting: How to efficiently replace hand-filed documents with 
simple stacks of paper – Xamance MIND - Spiking neuron network for 
video indexing and image search – SPIKENET Technology The Arrowsmith 
Suite of Tools to enhance Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration – 
University of Illinois Region based image analysis toolkit – 
University of Essex Histara – Reviews – Ecole Pratique des Hautes 
Etudes / University of Bern

ACADI: Automatic Character (in Audiovisual Document) Indexing – 
University of Toulouse ADVESTIGATE – Advestigo The SPLINE Platform for 
e-learning – Indian Institute of Management Bangalore EasyLayer - A 
Multi-Layered Citrix installation for heterogeneous user groups – 
University West

6S: P2P Web index collecting and sharing application – University of 
Indiana METIORE-WISP version prototype – LORIA Extracting semantic 
content from webpages – TheFind Inc.

Automatic Online Advertisement Targeting using Advanced Machine 
Learning Techniques – Turn Inc.

Decider.track, the first "Man-Machine Co-Decider" – Co-Decision 
Technology SAS The Endeca Information Access Platform – Endeca 
NpPicture – NewPhenix Xfy – JustSystems Corporation



The RIAO conferences are organized every three years, in Europe and 
North America, by the Center for Advanced Study of Information Systems 
(CASIS) and the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique 
Documentaire (CID)) information_at_le-cid.org



RIAO 2007 conference is held in cooperation with ACM-SIGIR
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