RIAO 2000 Content-Based Multimedia Information Access College de France Paris, France April 12-14, 2000 Preliminary Announcement _______________ Organized by: Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D., France) & Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S., USA) With the collaboration of AII, ASIS, ELRA, Elsnet, ESCA, Francil (preliminary list) _______________ Introduction The RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval) International Conference is held every 3 years. Sites for the conference have been Grenoble (1985), Boston (1988), Barcelona (1991), New York (1994) and Montreal (1997). Paris will host the next RIAO conference in Spring 2000. The conference is organized by the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D.) and the Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems (C.A.S.I.S.). The theme of the conference is "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access". The conference scope will range from the traditional processing of text documents to the rapidly growing field of automatic indexing and retrieval of images and speech and, more generally, to all processing of audio-visual and multimedia information on various supports, including the net. The conference is of interest for several scientific communities, including Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Spoken Language Processing, Computer Vision, Human- Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. RIAO 2000 will, thereby, serve as a forum for synergetic initiatives and forward-looking applications. The Scientific Committee will select the papers and the Application Committee will select the innovative applications and products to be presented at the conference. In order to support the multi-disciplinary goals of the conference, these international committees include representatives of different scientific communities. RIAO 2000 will present recent scientific research advances, demonstrations of prototypes resulting from this research as well as the most innovative products now appearing on the market. A worldwide Call for Papers is addressed to researchers engaged in academic or industrial research. The associated Call for Applications is addressed to companies and public organizations developing or marketing hardware or software related to the conference topics. RIAO 2000 Conference Topics: Under the theme "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access", the following topics are among those included for the Communications and for Innovative Application Demonstrations: Document processing: Hypertextual and Hypermedia documents Human-Computer Interaction for document handling Textual and voice-based annotation creation and retrieval Digital libraries AI techniques for document generation and consultation Multimodal and transmodal human-machine communication Information Retrieval: Information retrieval systems and methods Document search over the internet Text Mining Information and document routing/profiling/alerting Document classification Spoken Language Processing: Voice-based document segmentation and transcription Voice-based document indexing and retrieval Identification of language of speaker Speaker recognition Audio Mining Non-verbal sound processing (music, noise...) Natural Language Processing: Information extraction NLP techniques for document processing Terminology extraction and analysis Automatic thesaurus construction Multilingual and crosslingual document handling Machine translation of documents Automatic summarization Identification of language of text Image processing: Automatic indexing and retrieval of visual documents Computer graphics for document generation and consultation Segmentation and indexing of visual data Face, gaze and expression recognition Character recognition in visual documents Image Mining Video indexing and retrieval System architecture: Multi-agent architecture, search agents Intelligent agents, Androids and Avatars Usage and best practice: Socio-economics of information retrieval Quantitative, qualitative and comparative evaluation Coding standards and Quality of Services Security and privacy Cognitive aspects, Human Factors and Ergonomics Legal aspects of multimedia document handling Multimedia and multimodal resources Applications: Computer-aided information access for the handicapped Multimedia systems for medical applications Image Guided Surgery and Augmented Reality Medical documents archiving and retrieval Transmodal information access systems Telephone-based, nomad and in-vehicle systems Intelligent systems for call-center reporting Customized customer support (Aerospace product manuals...) Strategic and technology watch & Business Intelligence Real-Time information access for financial markets Information access for decision aid systems Multimodal Geographical Information Systems Television and Radio Broadcast Archiving and Browsing... Call for Papers The papers will be reviewed by the International Scientific Committee. RIAO 2000 International Scientific Committee : Co-Chairs : Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) and Donna Harman (NIST, USA) Jean-Claude Bassano (University of Orleans, France) Alain Berthoz (LPPA, College de France, France) Patrick Bouthemy (IRISA/INRIA, France) George Carayannis (ILSP, Greece) Francine Chen (Xerox, USA) Bruce Croft (University of Massachusets, USA) Franciska de Jong (University of Twente,The Netherlands) Susan Dumais (Microsoft, USA) David Evans (CMU and Claritech, USA) Christian Fluhr (CEA, France) Hiroya Fujisaki (Science University of Tokyo, Japan) Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Edouard Geoffrois (DGA/CTA, France) Jean-Paul Haton (LORIA, France) Alex Hauptman (CMU, USA) Ulrich Heid (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Roland Hjerppe (Mid Sweden University, Sweden) Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Mun Kew Leong ( Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore) Judith Klavans (Columbia University, USA) Wessel Kraaij (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands) Francis Kubala (BBN, USA) Gianni Lazzari (IRST, Italy) Alain Leger (CNET- France Telecom, France) R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, USA) Richard Marcus (MIT, USA) Mark Maybury (MITRE, USA) Frank Nack (GMD IPSI, Germany) Klaus Netter (DFKI, Germany) Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada) Douglas Oard (University of Maryland, USA) Dragutin Petkovic (IBM, USA) Georges Quenot (CLIPS, France) K. J. Ray Liu (University of Maryland, USA) Ze'ev Rivlin (Natural Speech Communication, Israel) Arnold Smeulders (ISIS, UvA, The Netherlands) Karen Sparck Jones (University of Cambridge, UK) Evelyne Tzoukermann (Lucent technologies, USA) Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia) Phil Woodland (CUED, UK) Call for Applications Tools and products related to the conference topics are sought for demonstration at special conference sessions. Applications and products will be selected by the International Application Committee, on the basis of their innovation, utility, and present and future marketability. RIAO 2000 International Application Committee : Chair: Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox, France) and Pascal Faudemay (LIP6, France) Marie-Francoise Clergeau (College de France, France) Daniel Confland (Jouve, France) Max Copperman (Kanisa, USA) Giorgio Dimino (RAI, Italy) Michael Horowitz (Claritech, USA) Hitoshi Iida (Sony Speech & Language Laboratory, Japan) Hans-Joachim Novak (IBM, Germany) Norbert Paquel (Canope, France) Sylvie Regnier-Prost (Aerospatiale-Matra, France) Remi Ronfard (INA, France) Antonio Sanfilippo (EC, Luxembourg) Laurent Schmitt (INIST-CNRS, France) Vera Semenova (Sciper/Analit, Russia) Joop Van Gent (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands) The RIAO 2000 Conference is organized by: Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaires (C.I.D.) 36 bis rue Ballu 75009 Paris France Tel: (33 / 0) 1 42 85 04 75 Fax: (33 / 0) 1 48 78 49 61 or 1 45 26 84 45 and Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S.) Co / C. Constantin 575 Madison Avenue 25th floor New York N.Y. 10022 USA Contacts: Email: riao2000@limsi.fr Web: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO Organizing and Coordinating Committee: Agnes Beriot (CID, France) Peter Brodnitz (CASIS, USA) Jean-Louis Darc (France-Pologne, France) Jean-Jacques Guilbart (College de France, France) Nicolas Masson (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Jean Perriere (CID, France) Sharyn Rozart (CASIS, USA) Anne Tabutiaux (Recherche et Diffusion Scientifique, France) Tony Venables (ECAS, Belgium) Calendar: ? Preliminary announcement: July 1999 ? Call for Papers & Demonstrations: September 15, 1999 ? Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999 ? Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1999 ? Submission of complete papers: January 15, 2000 ? Final Program: January 25, 2000 ? Conference: April 12-14, 2000 If you're interested in participating in the conference, or if you intend to submit a paper, a prototype or an application demo, or if you wish to know more about the conference when the information will be available, please fill in the Attendance Intention Form below, and send it to "riao2000@limsi.fr" ASAP. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Attendance Intention Form: Name : Position: Organization: Mail address: Telephone: Fax: EMAIL: Web site: I wish to participate in the RIAO 2000 Conference: I wish to submit a paper (topic): I wish to submit a prototype demo (topic): I wish to submit an innovative product or application demo (topic): I would like to have more information about RIAO 2000, when it will be available: Please, email this Attendance Intention Form to "riao2000@limsi.fr" ASAP. -----------------------------------------------------------------