Information Retrieval List Digest 047 (February 8, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-047 IRLIST Digest February 8, 1991 Volume VIII, Number 4 Issue 47 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meetings announcements/Calls for participation 1. RIAO '91: Intelligent Text and Image Handling" April 2-5, 1991 Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Ed Fox Re: RIAO '91: Intelligent Text and Image Handling April 2-5, 1991 Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain *sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities Minister of Education and Sciences, Spain Minister of "Industrie et Amenagement du Territoire", France Minister of "Recherche et Technologie", France President of the "Generalitat de Catalunya", Spain Rector of the "Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona", Spain *organized by Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (CID) Center for Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc. (CASIS) *under the direction of Professor A. Lichnerowicz de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris R.I.A.O.=Recherche d'Informaion assiste par Ordinateur (Computer aided information retrieval) *With the cooperation of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) France Telecom Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) Federacion Espanola de Sociedades de Archivistica, Biblioteconomia y Documentacion (FESABID) Instituto de Informacion y Documentacion en Ciencia y Tecnologia (ICYT) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM-SIGIR) American Society for Information Sciences (ASIS) *And the support of Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres Ministere de l'Industrie et de l'Amenagement du Territoire Ministere de la Recherche et de la Technologie DRET IBM Europe Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona CIRIT DGICYT Special thanks are due to Professor M. CASTELLET Dean of the Faculty of Sciences of the U.A.B PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chairman Prof. Jacques ARSAC Professor of University of Paris VI Past-President of CID J. Andr (F) IRISA, Rennes J.C. Bassano (F) University of Orlans H. Bauer-Bernet (B) Univ. Libre of Brussels A. Bookstein (USA) University of Chicago P. Brunet (SP) Univ. Politecnica Catalunya C. C. Chen (USA) Simmons College C. Chrisment (F) University of Toulouse M. Crehange (F) University of Nancy M. Dillon (USA) OCLC J. Driscoll (USA) University of Central Florida C. Fluhr (F) INSTN/CEA E. Fox (USA) Virginia Polytechnic Inst. C. Frasson (CAN) University of Montreal E. Garcia Camarero (SP) Univ. de Complutense Madrid P. Goossens (B) Royal Library G. Grefenstette (F) University of Tours R. Hansen (B) CEC, DGXIII C. Jonckheere (NDL) European Inst. of Patents R. Khulen (FRG) University of Konstanz A. Lelu (F) CNRS/INIST Nancy D. Lucarella (I) University of Milan J. Mullenders (B) Alcatel/Bull S. Oshuga (JPN) University of Tokyo A.P. Parkes (GB) University of Lancaster A. Parodi (F) LIMSI/CNRS L. Rau (USA) General Electric J. Rouault (F) University of Grenoble T. Saracevic (USA) Rutgers University C. Schwarz (FRG) Siemens B. Turner (F) CNRS/DIST Nancy B. Vickery (GB) Tom Ass. Inc. J.J. Villanueva (SP) U.A.B. D. Walker (USA)Bell Communications Res. A. Zampolli (I) University of Pisa Coordinator in Spain: C. Casacuberta U.A.B. AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE GENERAL INTRODUCTION The purpose of the conference is to present the state of the art in the storage, retrieval and dissemination of non-structured information found in text, image and sound. This field is developing rapidly : the entire information technology industry is a convergence of computing, telecommu- nications and multimedia techniques. Conditions are continually improving, enabling users' needs and desires for extensive and convivial access to information to be satisfied. The previous survey of the "state of the art" in this field, "RIAO 88" held at M.I.T. (Cambridge - U.S.A.) in March 1988, was a resounding success, bringing together members of the international scientific community working in these fields. "RIAO 91" will take place at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) from April 2-5, 1991. This conference will present, on one hand, recent scientific research, and on the other, demonstrations of prototypes resulting from this research as well as the most innovative new products appearing on the market. General theme Full-text and heterogeneous media data bases are characterized by the fact that the structure of the information that they contain can rarely be known a priori. Traditional hierarchical and relational database management systems provide inadequate treatment. The absence of homogeneous structure and the great diversity of information in even moderately sized bases prevent foreseeing the set of questions to be asked. Information research remains a difficult problem, yet computing techniques and technologies seems to provide more power than is being used. The specialized themes are: Hypermedia. Document input. Structured text and software architecture. Natural language. Multilinguism. Information retrieval systems. IR and DBMS. Knowledge extraction from text. Image handling. Speech technology and data compression. TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1991 Chair: M. Castellet 9:30:9:50 INTRODUCTION M. Carpentier General Director of DGXIII, CEC 9:50-10:05 WELCOMING SPEECH J. Laporte Conseller d'Ensenyament Generalitat de Catalunya 10:05-10:45 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES for "RIAO 91" J. Arsac Professor at the University of Paris VI Past-president of CID 10:45-11:20 BREAK AND DEMONSTRATIONS SESSION 1 : HYPERMEDIA 1 Chair : C. C. Chen 11:20-11:45 Architecture and functions for a conceptual interface to very large online bibliographic collections. M. Agosti1, G. Gradenigo2, P.G. Marchetti2 1University of Padova, 2 European Space Agency (Italy) 11:45-12:10 INIST experience in hyper-document building from bibliographic databases. J. Ducloy , L. Grivel, J.C. Lamirel, X. Polanco,L. Schmitt CNRS-INIST (France) 12:10-12:35 Super-library: an environment for the conversion of linear texts into hypertexts. N. Catenazzi, F. Argentesi Joint Research Center (Italy) 12:35-1:00 A connection graph for user navigation in a large image bank. Ph. Aigrain, V. Longueville University Paul Sabatier (France) 1:00-2:10 LUNCH SESSION 2 : HYPERMEDIA 2 Chair : R. Kuhlen 2:10-2:35 A system for managing multimedia dossiers. F. Cesarini, G. Soda University of Firenze (Italy) 2:35-3:00 Classification and information retrieval in hypertext systems. M. Aboud, R. Razouk, S. Sedes, C. Soule-Dupuy University of Toulouse III (France) 3:00-3:25 An intelligent multimedia information handling system. D. Davcev, D. Cakmakov University of Skopje (Yugoslavia) 3:25-3:50 An application of a knowledge communication model for a tutoring system. A. Gramage, M. Garc!a del Valle, D.M. Kumpel O.M.S. Consultores S.A. (Spain) 3:50-4:45 BREAK AND DEMONSTRATIONS SESSION 3 : DOCUMENT INPUT Chair : H. Bauer-Bernet 4:45-5:10 How to take advantages of word structure in printed character recognition. P.G. De Luca, A. Gisotti (Italy) 5:10-5:35 Merging optical character recognition outputs for improved accuracy. J.C. Handley , B.H. Thomas OCLC (United States) 5:35-6:00 Visual parsing: an aid to text understanding. M.Holstege , J.Y. Inn, L. Tokuda Resumix, Inc. (United States) 6:00-6:25 Text line extraction and baseline direction. J. Kanai Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (United States) 6:25-6:50 Automated entry system for handwritten documents. M. Cheriet , C.Y. Suen Concordia University (Canada) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1991 SESSION 4 : STRUCTURED TEXT AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE Chair : A. Zampolli 9:00-9:25 SGLM documents and non-linear text retrieval. I.A. MacLeod, D.T. Barnard, D. Hamilton, M. Levison Queen's University (Canada) 9:25-9:50 A hyperdocument model based on the ODA standard. R. Dykiel, M Mabzouk, J.M. Pinon BULL S.A. (France) 9:50-10:15 The use of retrieval filters to localize information in a hierarchically tagged text-dominated database. F.J. Burkowski University of Waterloo (Canada) 10:15-10:40 An object-oriented architecture for text retrieval. D. Cutting, J. Pedersen, P.K. Halvorsen Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (United States) 10:40-11:20 BREAK AND DEMONSTRATIONS SESSION 5 : INTERFACES Chair : L. Rau 11:20-11:45 Manipulable inter-medium encodings for information retrieval. A.P. Parkes University of Lancaster (United Kingdom) 11:45-12:10 LEXITRAN for an easier public access to a patent database. W.A. Turner, P. Buffet, F. Laville CERESI/CNRS,QUESTEL/TELESYSTEME, Ecole des Mines (France) 12:10-12:35 Hypermedia and probabilistic retrieval. M. Dunlop, C.J. Van Rijsbergen University of Glasgow (United Kingdom) 12:35-1:00 Sophocle: a workshop for analysing the written language production in a realistic dialog situation. Y. Polity, J.M. Francony University of Grenoble (France) 1:00-2:20 LUNCH AND DEMONSTRATIONS SESSION 6 : NATURAL LANGUAGE Chair : C. Fluhr 2:20-2:45 Outline of a database model for electronic dictionaries. N.M. Ide, J. Veronis, J. Le Maitre Vassar College (United States),CNRS (France) 2:45-3:10 Multi-experts system for documentary research. W. Mekaouche, J.C. Bassano University of Orleans (France) 3:10-3:35 Using morpho-syntactic language analysis in phrase matching. A.F. Smeaton , P. Sheridan Dublin City University (Ireland) 3:35-4:00 An expert-system for French analysis within a multi- mode dialogue to be connected. S. Dami, G. Lallich-Boidin University of Grenoble (France) 4:00-4:45 BREAK AND DEMONSTRATIONS SESSION 7 : MULTILINGUISM Chair : A. Parkes 4:45-5:10 The EUROTRA front end. N. Jaeger EUROTRA (Denmark) 5:10-5:35 Multingual access to textual databases. K. Radwan, F. Foussier, C. Fluhr INSTN-CEN Saclay (France) 5:35-6:00 Remote access to the METAL translation system. J.A. Alonso, X. Garcia, X. Rodellar, C.J. Rodriguez Siemens Nixdorf SA (Spain) 6:00-6:25 Nat-Multilingual: tools for multilingual interfaces in databases. J. Coch di Yacovo, G. Crispino, D. Cukierman, G. Morize, D. Wonsever CYBERNETIX (France), University of Uruguay (Uruguay) 7:30 RECEPTION AT THE GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 SESSION 8: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM 1 Chair : J.C. Bassano 9:00-9:25 Experiments on linguistically based term associations. G. Ruge Siemens Nixdorf Inf. Systems (Germany) 9:25-9:50 An associative neural experts system for information retrieval. G. Desrocques, J.C. Bassano, D. Archambault University of Orleans (France) 9:50-10:15 On "diesel train1 engines" and "to train2 airline pilots": Tagging words senses in corpus. U. Zernik GE R&D Center (United States) 10:15-10:40 A system for efficient full-text retrieval. N. Ziviani Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) 10:40-11:20 BREAK AND DEMONSTRATIONS SESSION 9: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM 2 Chair : E. Garcia Camarero 11:20-11:45 AIR/X - A rule-based multistage indexing system for large subject fields. N. Fuhr, S. Hartmann, G. Lustig, M. Schwantner, K. Tzeras, G. Knorz Technische Hochschule Darmstadt,Fachhochschule Darmstadt (Germany) 11:45-12:10 Automatic indexing using selective NLP and first-order thesauri. D.A. Evans, K. Ginther-Webster, M.Hart, R.G. Lefferts,I.A. Monarch Carnegie Mellon University (United States) 12:10-12:35 Efficient probabilistic inference for text retrieval. H.R. Turtle, W.B. Croft University of Massachusetts (United States) 12:35-1:00 Bayesien inference networks in hypertext. J. Savoy, D. Desbois University of Montreal (Canada) 1:00-2:20 LUNCH AND DEMONSTRATIONS SESSION 10 : KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FROM TEXT 1 Chair : P. Brunet 2:20-2:45 Syntax and semantics in a text interpretation system. F. Ciravegna, R. Tarditi, P. Campia, A. Colognese FIAT (Italy) 2:45-3:10 Extracting implicit information from free text technical reports. P. Zweigenbaum, M. Cavazza INSERM (France) 3:10-3:35 Processing natural language for an expert system using a sublanguage approach. E. Liddy, C. Jorgenson, E. Sibert, E.S. Yu Syracuse University (United States) 3:35-4:00 Automatic extraction of factual information from text and its integration in a knowledge base. N. Castell , M.F. Verdejo Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain) 4:00-4:45 BREAK AND DEMONSTRATIONS SESSION 11: KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FROM TEXT 2 Chair : M. Crehange 4:45-5:10 Natural language processing of the texts of chemical patent abstracts. G. Chowdhury, M.F. Lynch University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) 5:10-5:35 Personal name pattern matching A.D. Gross Getty Art History Information Program (United States) 5:35-6:00 A temporal analyser for unrestricted texts. K. Sgarbas, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis University of Patras (Greece) 6:00-6:25 Multilingual access to documentary databases. C. Lopez de Sosoaga SABINI (Spain) DINNER AND VISIT OF "POBLE ESPANYOL" FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1991 SESSION 12 : INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND DBMS Chair : T. Saracevic 9:00-9:25 Paraphrasing SQL to natural language. J. Ljungberg SISU (Sweden) 9:25-9:50 The end-user's view of his data managed by a relational DBMS. M. Rauterberg Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (Swizerland) 9:50-10:15 Machine learning principles in application to a transportable natural language database interface. J. Solak, H. Popowska Instytit Informacji Naukowej, Warszawa (Poland) 10:15-10:40 Hypertext interface for an object-oriented database. E. Andonoff, M. Canillac, C. Mendiboure, G. Zurfluh University of Toulouse (France) 10:40-11:20 BREAK AND DEMONSTRATIONS SESSION 13: IMAGE HANDLING Chair : G. Grefenstette 11:20-11:45 Automatic image indexation and retrieval. F. Rabitti1, P. Savino2 IEI-CNR, Olivetti DOR (Italy) 11:45-12:10 Digital prefix coding trees: an efficient structure for image data storage and manipulation. J.P. Cheiney , P. Picouet France Telecom - ENST (France) 12:10-12:35 Discovery of conceptual categories in an image database. V.V. Raghavan, V.N. Gudivada 1University of Southwestern Louisiana, 2Jackson State University (United States) 12:35-1:00 Semantic-based query formulation in PAS. S.Al. Hawamdeh, B.C. Ooi National University (Singapore) 1:00-2:20 LUNCH AND DEMONSTRATIONS SESSION 14: SPEECH TECHNOLOGY AND DATA COMPRESSION Chair : M. Mariani 2:20-2:45 Spoken language systems for human/machine interfaces. V.W. Zue, J.R. Glass, D. Goddeau, D. Goodine, L. Hirschman, H.C. Leung, M.S. Phillips, J. Polifroni, S. Seneff MIT (United States) 2:45-3:10 A system for reducing imprecision in speech interfaces to generalized text input devices. J. Monoghan, C. Cheepen Hatfield Polytechnic (United Kingdom) 3:10-3:35 The ARTFL data compression project. A. Bookstein, S.T. Klein, D.A. Ziff University of Chicago (United States) 3:35-4:00 Towards the ultimate text compression method for help systems. W. Skaba Nicholas Copernicus University (Poland) 4:00-4:40 BREAK AND DEMONSTRATIONS 4:40-5:40 DEBATE 5:40-6:00 CONCLUSIONS Sr Josep M. Valles i Casadevall Rector of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona PROGRAM OF DEMONSTRATIONS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS In conjunction with the presentation of papers at the conference, prototypes will be demonstrated in the Faculty of Sciences, building C. These demonstrations will take place on a rotating bases during the breaks, following the presentation of the authors' work. A detailed program of these demonstrations will be available at the conference. OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEMONSTRATIONS The following systems will be displayed throughout the conference in the hall of the Faculty of Sciences, building 6. These systems will be demonstrated with an oral presentation in the amphitheater of the Faculty of Sciences (next to the demonstration hall). A detailed program of these demonstrations and oral presentations will be available at the conference. 1. SPEECH INTERFACES MAX (ECHO - European Commission Host Organization, Luxemburg) Max is a voice-activated telephone system, giving information regarding the European Community : ECU exchange rate, Basic European statistics, ECHO latest news, ECHO calendar, European Community programs, concepts in information technology, European Community institutions, European Community Press Offices. It uses speaker-independent isolated-word recognition and speech synthesis. It presently works in 3 different languages : English, French and German. The system was designed by AEG on the ECHO host, as a CEC/DGXIII-B project. AUDIOTEX (CTNE, Telefonica I + D, Spain) Audiotex is a telephone "News service". It consists of a PC, AUDIO equipment, floating-point DSP boards and a telephone set. It allows Spanish telephone users to obtain information over the telephone lines, using voice input (speaker- independent speech recognition), or a multifrequence telephone keyboard. The information is provided by a diphone-based Text- to-Speech system in Spanish. STO3/STO4 Speech Recognizer System (G. Bekery Acoustical Research Laboratory, Hungary) This speech recognition system is for IBM XT/AT compatible microcomputers. It has a speaker-dependent isolated-word recognition system. The STO3 is for small vocabularies (in the range of 80 words). The STO4 can recognize 300 words in real time. It uses a TMS320/10 DSP board. The system is language- independent and the vocabulary is user-definable. Pattern matching is carried out by adaptive linear time warping. 2. SGML SGML/Search (Berger Levrault- Advanced Information System, France) SGML Search is an information retrieval system based on the SGML standard. It turns SGML files into searchable databases, gives full access to the SGML structure and is designed to be very powerful on very long texts. 3. HYPERTEXTS ZEN (BULL, France) Bull France presents ZEN, a very well articulated hypertext running under X'Windows on most Unix platforms. ZEN is a spin-off product of the Kwick Esprit project; it integrates text and graphics management as well as a very elaborated script language oriented towards the programming literate. ZEN also deals well with link updates providing good groupware support (file protection available) and therefore personal annotations. It also features a clever "regional browser". GUIDE (OWL, Great Britain) OWL presents GUIDE and IDEX. GUIDE for Windows multimedia authoring systems based on the navigational hypertext concept. Using GUIDE, writers can integrate easily a volume of data whether it is text, graphics, sound or video. IDEX is a powerful document management system based on key word search and hypertext navigation support which multiple users. It also supports SGML, the International Standard Markup Language for structured publications. CD-SIMULATOR (ELEKTROSON, Nederland) Elektroson presents CD-Simulator, a CD-ROM data-preparation system for organizing data for distribution on compact disks. The CD-Simulator conforms to the CD-ROM ISO 9660 standard as well as the multimedia CD-ROM XA standard promoted by Sony and Philips. The CD-Simulator can be used to prepare CD's for the PC arena as well as the Mac and the Unix environment. It can be used also to simulate any commercially available CD-ROM drives in order to test how your application is going to work on a CD. You can also use a write-once device to make CD-ROM test disks by the unit. 4. CONCEPT GRAPH ACCESS TOPIC (Verity, USA) Graph-based document retrieval system. Complex boolean formulas using fuzzy logic are represented by easily manipulable graphs. The user can define and modify these graphs to represent their particular interest, generating their own personal thesaurus. PRIAM (SY-MEDIA, France) Real-time news bulletin reception, indexation and consultation system. The wire service items are analyzed and indexed as they are received, and can be consulted immediately by the end-user. Multiple interrogation interfaces are available, including concept graph-based representations. 5. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEM (IN TECS, Italy) This documentation system allows the user to browse immediately through related information, to associate graphics and photos to specific words and to display them with a touch of the mouse. TAKE 5 (EDIAT, France) TAKE 5, a document storage and retrieval system provides a multi-lingual interface and pseudo-natural language querying. Queries can be expanded by means of integrated conceptual networks. Thesaurus specialization can be included in user profiles. Referential links between documents can be designed to permit navigational consultation, as in hypertext systems. SPIRIT (SYSTEX, France) A full text information retrieval system based on morphological, syntactic and statistical analysis. Besides allowing natural language queries, this system features a "cross bilingual interrogation" using query information, and dynamic hypertext with automatic generation of semantic links. It is available in different environments, including UNIX PC under X-WINDOWS. DOXIS (ERGOSUM, France) An information management system, that was designed to handle both structured data and full text, without any logical limitation. It integrates data and knowledge management, thus introducing a new technique of natural language query based on semantic analysis using a plain language conceptual dictionary. Doxis is available on MS-DOS, UNIX, and various LAN environments. STATUS/E (HARWELL COMPUTER POWER LTD, Great-Britain) An information management system used for storage and retrieval of large volumes of structured and unstructured text. The documents retrieved are automatically presented to the user in order of relevance. STATUS/E can be interfaced with other software such as word processors. It is available on a wide range of hardwars and operating systems and includes a client server version. PSIDOC (JOUVE, France) Set of software tools used for developing applications of input, storing, retrieval, and output of documentary data bases. Psidoc offers both a high level and controlled input of structured data bases. Its object oriented design allows easy developements of specific applications. It runs on AT 386 workstations connected to a UNIX data host via Ethernet. MOVIE (COSM, France) An information retrieval software that assists users in searching information through an interactive decision making system. It analyses data (both structured and unstructured) and creates relationships between items of information. When the search fails to reach its primary goal, it can explain the reason of the failure and make counter propositions. It runs under UNIX System V. ILIADA (Software AG, Spain) System integrating information retrieval and library management systems. Treatment in full text with hypertext functionalities. This system is based on the DBMS ADABAS. ALCESTE (IMAGE, France) Running on the MacIntosh, ALCESTE analyses the semantic contents of a set of texts. Lexical analysis by content is developed in three steps. 6. CD-ROM MAZDABASE (M.C.P. Edition, France) Catalog of Mazda lighting products on a CD-ROM in English and French. Access using keywords or full text, with a mosac image presentation. Possibility of extracting texts and images for use in a text-collecting and processing system. PESTICIDES (Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain) CD-ROM product called "Pesticids Disk" which includes details on 15.000 pesticid products used in 25 European countries cross-referred to information on all ingredient chemicals and an address list via hypertext linking. MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM (CTU Univ. of Milan, Italy) Project of hypermedia for teaching biological sciences including fixed images, movie sequencies, texts and sound. This system involves a videodisk and a CD-ROM. 7. AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION METAL (Siemens, Germany, Spain) A machine translation system working on several language couples. 8. OCR SYSTEMS TEXIRIS 2 PLUS (Image Recognition Integrated Systems IRIS, Belgium) Omnifont optical character recognition system. Add-on card and software. 12-language dictionary. READSTAR on a TRANSPUTER card (Inovatic, France) Rapid character-recognition using the powerful parallel processing of a TRANSPUTER card and the READSTAR software. TEXTPERT (CTA, Spain) Optical character recognition software for MacIntosh and Windows/PC. 9. GATEWAYS Intelligent post processing in Modern Gateways (CRRM, France) Software package for facilitating gateway search exploitation. Particularly useful for patents, chemistry and physics. Intelligent Information (INFOTAP, Luxemburg) System accessing more that 200 data banks in Europe and the United States. Data Bases selection aids. Common interrogation language interface. Automatic accounting updates. 10. WORKSTATIONS FOR DOCUMENTALISTS. EPOQUE (European Patent Office) CEE Holland OS/2 software allowing simplified access to the European Patent Office Data Bases, as well as to other commercialbases. 11.ELECTRONIC MAIL WITH CONTENT-BASED ADDRESSING AMI "Attribution de Messages Intelligente" (Thomson RCC and CORA, France) Automatic Message sorting in French and German based on analysis of free text. Demonstration of sending and receiving messages in both languages. 12. MULTIMEDIA AND ARCHIVING SYSTEMS IMAGEDB (CSI, Spain) Image database management combined with structured or unstructured information. AUTOMABB (MABB Sistemas Interactivos, Spain) Authoring system for multimedia databases on PC integrating videodisk and CD-ROM. INFODOC (INFODOC SA, Spain) A document storage and retrieval system coupled with an image processing system CLARITY (Micronet, Spain) Electronic archiving system managing texts and images. HYPARCHIV (ACS Systembereitung, Germany) Electronic management system with Windows 3.0 and hypertext access. The same software enables both creation and consultation. Besides the documentation systems described above, a certain number of data bases will be presented, e.g. the "lighting CD- ROM" of the Disseny Center of Barcelona, the data bases of digital archives of manuscripts and Spanish texts of the fifth century and the dictionary of the Institute of Catalan Studies. The Economic European Community will also give demonstrations e.g. the GSI-ERLY system with queries in natural language. France Telecom will give demonstrations of the ISDN and Questel, image data bases. The final list of demonstrations will be distributed at the opening of the conference with the schedule of the oral presentations. APPLICATION COMMITTEE Chair: C. Bornes INRIA, Le Chesnay F. Coma (SP) Fundaci Caixa dePensions F. Beauvais (F) La Documentation Franaise J. Ducloy (F) CNRS/INIST M. Farge (F) France Telecom P. Flichy (F) Better Way J.M. Font (F) Ingnieur Conseil, Paris J. Guidon (F) A.N.L. A.M. Guimier-Sorbet (F) CNRS M. Lohner (F) MIST/INSTN M. Lupovici (F) CNRS/INIST M. Mariani (F) LIMSI, CNRS L. Merigot (F) La Documentation Franaise C. Paoli (F) CEDOCAR A. Sanfeliu (SP) Institut de Cibernetica F. Sedes (F) University of Toulouse III J. Villacorta (SP) Catalonia Software REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND DIRECTIONS Preregistration should be received by March 10, 1991. The standard registration fee for the conference is $435 or 2300 FF if received before March 10, and $ 470 or 2.600 FF after that date. It includes admission to all sessions and demonstrations, luncheons Tuesday to Friday, dinner at the "Poble Espanyol" on April 4, 1991 and the Conference Proceedings. Please complete the attached "Application for Registration" form and send it for European participants to: C.I.D. 36 bis rue Ballu 75009 PARIS France with a bank transfer to be sent to the account: In FF : n* 00050 06548 1 Socit Generale Agence Place Clichy, 89 Rue de Clichy 75009 Paris FRANCE In Pesetas: n* 10136 74 7 Socit Gnrale Plaza Cataluna 20 08002 Barcelona SPAIN Checks will be accepted in FF on a French bank or in Pesetas on a Spanish bank In other case, a change commission will be added at the current daily price. For participants from North America and other countries, please send the application form to: CASIS Co/ Mrs MAURICE 220 East 72nd Street New York N.Y. 10021 U.S.A. Tel.: (212) 879 40 19 with a bank transfer to the account: N* 02 5146 90 00 Socit Gnrale 50 Rockfeller Plaza New York NY 10020 or a check in US$. Registration may be cancelled with a 10%-less refund if notification is received prior to March 15, 1991. No refund will be granted after March 15, 1991. Registration will take place on Monday, April lst, 1991 from 5 p.m.- 8 p.m. at the Hotel RIALTO, Ferran 42 , Barcelona, Tel. 34-3 318 52 12 (Ferran Street begins at Ramblas Avenida in downtown Barcelona near the Opera Hall) and on Tuesday April 2nd, starting at 7 a.m. in the room opposite the grand amphitheater, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, ground floor, at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona. The above area will be staffed from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. daily during the conference. A telephone and message board will be located in the same area. Another message board will be found in the Demonstration Hall in the Faculty of Sciences at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona. The conference telephone numbers are: (34-3) 581 14 71 or (34-3) 581 10 81 . RECEPTIONS A reception will be given by the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya for all participants (and those who accompagned the participants) on April 3 at 7.30 p.m. The Generalitat is the Government of the Autonomous Community of Catalunya, which is located the North-Eastern part of Spain. The main site on Plaza de Sant Jaume is a palace, near Barcelona Town Hall. A dinner will be held on Thursday evening, April 4, at 9 p.m. at the "Poble Espanyol" in Barcelona. This is a Village-Museum on the Montjuic Hill in Barcelona with full-sized model houses of different Spanish provinces and typical workshops. A visit of the Village-Museum will take place at 8 p.m. before dinner. Persons who are not registered at the Congress but attend the dinner with a participant will be asked to pay 250 FF or $50 for the evening. HOTEL RESERVATIONS A block of rooms has been reserved at several hotels in Barcelona. When you make your reservation, please indicate that you are a participant of "RIAO 91". In most cases, rooms will only be held until the end of February after which bookings will be cancelled. The prices indicated include breakfast and tax. 34 - 3 is the telephone code for Barcelona. Hotels of the group "Gargallo". To make a reservation in one of the following 4 hotels please contact the "central reservation of the group "Gargallo", telephone 315 28 57, Fax 315 38 19, Telex 97206. - Hotel Suizo (***), Placa de l'Angel, 12, 08002 Barcelona. 9700 pesetas double room for a single occupant; 10600 pesetas double room for a single occupant and 13250 pesetas for a double room. - Hotel Rialto (***), Ferran 42, 080002 Barcelona. The prices are the same as for the Hotel Suizo. - Aparthotel Ronda (***), Sant Erasme, 19, 08001 Barcelona. 8530 single; 10180 pesetas double for a single occupant, and 12720 pesetas for a double room. - Hotel Gtico (***) Jaume 1, 14, 08002 Barcelona, same price as hotel Aparthotel Ronda. Hotels of the group HUSA : - Hotel Regente (****), Rambla Catalunya 76, 08008 Barcelona; tel. 215 25 70, Fax 487 32 27, telex 519 39 18480 pesetas single, 23860 double. - Hotel Oriente (***) Ramblas, 45, 08002 Barcelona, tel. 302 25 58 Fax 412 38 19 ; 10330 pesetas single, 15750 pesetas double. - Hotel Mesn Castilla (**), Valldonzella, 5, 08001 Barcelona, tel. 318 21 82, Fax 412 40 20 ; 7570 pesetas single, 10070 pesetas for a double room. - Hotel Internacional (*) Ramblas 78, 08002 Barcelona. Tel. 302 25 66, Fax 317 61 90 ; 679O pesetas single and 8800 pesetas double. Hotels of the group Condado. Two hotels where payment one night in advance reservation will be required. - Hotel Condado (***), Aribau 201, 08021 Barcelona, tel. 200 23 11 ; fax 200 25 86, telex 54546 : 9810 pesetas single, 12750 double. - Hotel Tres Torres (***) Calatrava 32, 08017 Barcelona tel. 417 73 00, Fax 418 98 34. Same price as the Hotel Condado. Hotel Bellatera (****) This hotel is located on the highway A-7, near the University Autnoma of Barcelona. Tel. 692 60 54 Fax 692 60 54. ; 9540 pesetas single, 12480 double. It is also possible to make a reservation through a travel agency : MUNDICOLOR, Roger de Lluria, 50, 4 08009 Barcelona. Tel. 317 01 68, 317 11 40, 318 51 20. FAX 341 41 29. The travel agency requires 25 % of the price to be sent upon confirmation of the reservation and the rest to be sent before March 15, 1991. The agency recommends payments by Eurocheque in pesetas. Breakfast and tax are included. (The prices below are only garanteed until February 8) - Hotel Suite (*****) 20140 pesetas for a single and 28300 pesetas for a double room. - Hotel Presidente (*****) 12500 pesetas for a single and 17920 pesetas for a double room. - Hotel Park Putxet (****) 13450 pesetas for a single and 17600 pesetas for a double room. - Hotel Rialto (***) 655O pesetas for a single and 10000 pesetas for a double room. This travel agency can offer car rental at a special rate. Category A : 12390 for 3 days, 16510 pesetas for 4 days, 20635 pesetas for 5 days. Category B : 13510 pesetas for 3 days, 18010 pesetas for 4 days, 22500 pesetas for 5 days etc.... Prices are for unlimited mileage but insurance and tax are not included. AIR TRAVEL IBERIA Airline and other companies offer special fares to Barcelona. Discount rates will be available on a case-by-case basis. For those travelling from North America to Barcelona please contact Mrs Maurice (CASIS), Tel. (1-212) 879 40 19 For those from other Countries: Sylvie DALBIN, Tel. (33 1) 48 74 53 05 Fax (33 1) 43 58 14 15 Those individual from European countries spending a Saturday evening in Barcelona will have a reduction of more than half of the full price. ARRIVAL BY AIR : Barcelona Airport is not far from town. Trains (RENFE line) running every 30 minutes from 5.42 a.m. to 10.12 p.m. gone to the Plaza Catalunya in the center of Barcelona or to the main station Barcelona Santz. A taxi from the airport to the town center costs about 2000 pesetas. ARRIVAL BY TRAIN : The "Barcelona Talgo" train from Paris arrives at 8.30 a.m. The "Catalan Talgo" from Gen ve arrives at 9.18 p.m. and the "Pau Casals" from Zurich arrives at 9.10 a.m. From the Sants Station you can take the metro (green line 3) or get a taxi (about 500 pesetas) to the center of Barcelona. ARRIVAL BY CAR : Several highways lead to Barcelona. The distance from the French frontier "la Jonquera" to Barcelona is 150 kilometers, along the highway A-7.. To go from the airport to the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona by car, follow the sign Tarragona-Lleida and then follow the direction Sabadell-Terrassa to the University campus. There is no problem in parking on the campus of the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona. ORGANIZATION STAFF Agn s Briot General Secretary CID Marie-Thr se Maurice CASIS - USA assisted by Sylvie Dalbin Treasurer, CID Isidre Canals Socadi Josep M. Arus U.A.B. Joseph Elias U.A.B. Joan Gmez Escofet U.A.B. Montserrat Panell U.A.B. Aurea Martinez U.A.B. Monserrat Roca U.A.B. Montserrat Sebastia Prof. Info. Doc. Florence Sedes University of Toulouse 1 Carles Sexmilo U.A.B. INFORMATION RIAO 91 CID 36 bis, rue Ballu 75009 PARIS FRANCE Tel.: (33-1) 48 74 53 05 Fax: (33-1) 43 58 14 15 U.S. Coordinator Mrs M.T. MAURICE CASIS 220 East 72nd Street #10F New York NY 10021 Tel.: (212) 879 40 19 Spanish Coordinator U.A.B. 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