RIAO 2007 Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound) - 8th Conference - May 30 to June 1, 2007 Pittsburgh, PA, USA RIAO'2007 will be held at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA from May 30 through June 1, 2007. The RIAO conferences, organized by the "Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire - C.I.D., treat robust and large-scale scientific and industrial solutions to information processing. This is the 8th RIAO after conferences in Grenoble (1985), MIT (1988), Barcelona (1991), Rockefeller University (1994), Montreal (1997), Paris (2000), and Avignon (2004). The conferences are composed of peer-reviewed scientific sessions and demonstrations of innovative industrial applications and advanced research prototypes. Deadline for paper submissions December 1, 2006 Acceptance Letters sent February 15, 2007 Program Published February 27, 2007 Camera-Ready Copies Due April 1, 2007 Conference Dates May 30, May 31, June 1, 2007 Scope of the Conference Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished research that has been validated to the level of the creation of a functioning prototype. We are interested in large-scale solutions to the problem of accessing the semantic content found in unstructured text, images, video and audio. Submissions should describe solutions to these problems from the following perspectives: * Automatic indexing of video, images, and speech * Improved indexing of text, image, video and sound * Ontologies and unstructured data * Semantic Web and Ontologies for Full-Scale Information Retrieval * Automatically producing textual descriptions of images * Automatically adding metadata to video and sound * Indexing and retrieval of mixed-media documents * Indexing interactive documents * Natural interface dialogue * Multimedia question answering systems * Competitive Intelligence * Intelligent Search Agents * Multimodal search * Architectures for semantic treatment of very large databases * Algorithms for semantic treatment of very large databases * Comprehension-based question answering and summarization * Cooperative indexing between media * Semantics for less studied languages * Semantic representations and standards * Collaborative construction of semantic resources * Indexing multilingual collections * Automatic extraction of ontologies from unstructured data * Aligning multilingual ontologies * Language resources for multimedia indexing * Extracting semantic resources from raw data * Semantic annotation of blogs and videoblogs * Exploiting large-scale resources for e-learning * Structuring cultural heritage * Technological, commercial, industrial watch systems * Semantic access to large and open archives Paper Submission We welcome submissions both from the research community and industry concerning the main conference theme of treating the semantic content of large quantities of text, images, videos, and sound. Submitted papers should describe original work, emphasizing completed or well advanced, rather than intended, research. The state of completion of the reported work must be clearly indicated. Where appropriate, results should be rigorously evaluated; the assessment of statistical significance for quantitative results is encouraged. Submissions should contain original material that has not been previously presented to the scientific community. A parallel submission for other publication or a significant overlap in contents with previously published work should be clearly indicated to the program committee. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. The submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, technical quality, and presentation. Papers must be submitted on the conference's web site: http://www.riao.org/cyberchair/cyberPapers/ Papers can be submitted in two categories: long papers or short papers. Full papers are appropriate for describing substantial research with well-evaluated results and short papers will typically describe ongoing research and preliminary results. All accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference proceedings. At the conference, full papers will be presented as a talk and short papers will be presented as a poster. Long papers must not be more than 20 pages (on one column, single-spaced, using Times font 12 points), starting with an abstract. Short papers must not be more than 6 pages (on one column, single-spaced, using Times font 12 points), starting with an abstract. Submissions should be in Microsoft Word format or in PDF. The conference proceedings will be available to conference attendees and through the CID after the conference. Program Committee Program Committee Presidents Americas EVANS David, CEO & Chief Scientist, Clairvoyance Corporation, USA Asia, Oceania FURUI Sadaoki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Europe, Africa SOULÉ-DUPUY Chantal, IRIT, Université Toulouse I, France Program Committee Members BELLOT Patrice, Université d'Avignon, France BERRUT Catherine, IMAG, France BOUGHANEM Mohand, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, France BOUJEMAA Nouzha, INRIA, France BRAJNIK Giorgio, University of Udine, Italy CALLAN Jamie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA CHEN Hsin-Hsi, National Taiwan University, Taiwan CHEN Yixin, University of New Orleans, USA CHEVALIER Max, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, France CHRISTMAS William, University of Surrey, UK CRESTANI Fabio, University of Strathclyde, UK DAELEMANS Walter, Anvers University, Belgium de JONG Franciska, University of Twente, The Netherlands DOWNIE Stephen J., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA DUYGULU Pinar, Bilkent University, Turkey ELLIS Daniel, Columbia University, USA ENSER Peter, University of Brighton, UK FEDERICO Marcello, ITC-IRST, Trente, Italy FLUHR Christian, CEA/LIST, France FUHR Norbert, University of Duisberg, Deutchland FUNG Pascale, University of Science and Technology of Hong Kong, China GALLINARI Patrick, LIP6 Paris, France GAROFOLO John S., NIST, USA GAUSSIER Eric, XEROX France, France GAUVAIN Jean-Luc, LIMSI, France GEOFFROIS Edouard, DGA, France GONZALO Julio, UNED, Spain GRAU Brigitte, LIMSI - CHM - LIR, France GREFENSTETTE Gregory, CEA/LIST, France GROSKY William, Michigan Dearborn University, USA HAINDL Michael, IITA, Czech Republic HALIN Gilles, LORIA, France HANSEN John H. L., University of Dallas, USA HARMAN Donna, NIST, USA HIRTLE Stephen C., University of Pittsburgh, USA KANDO Noriko, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan KOTROPOULOS Constantine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece KURIMO Mikko, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland LAGUS Krista, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland LALMAS Mounia, Queen Mary University of London, UK LAM Wai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China LEUNG Howard, City Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China LIDDY Elisabeth, Syracuse University, USA LIU Hugo, MIT Media Laboratory, USA LU Hanging, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Institute of Automation, China MAAREK Yoelle, IBM, Haifa, Israel MARCOTEGUI Beatriz, École des Mines, France McCOWAN Iain, CSIRO, Australia MENG Helen, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China NIE Jian-Yun, Université de Montréal, Canada OARD Douglas, University of Maryland, USA OUNIS Iadh, University of Glasgow, UK PACHET Francois, SONY, France PARDAS Montse, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain PASI Gabriella, CNR - ITM Milan, Italy PAUWELS Erik, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands PETEK Bojan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia PETERS Carols, CNR, Italia PINON Jean-Marie, LIRIS - INSA Lyon, France POPAT Ashok, Google, USA PUN Thierry, CUI - Université de Genève, Switzerland QU Yan, Clairvoyance Corporation, USA RAUBER Andreas, Vienna University of Technology, Austria RENALS Steve, University of Edinburgh, UK SAKAI Tetsuya, Knowledge Media Lab, Toshiba Corp. R&D Center, Japan SASAKI Yutaka, ATR, Japon SARACEVIC Tefko, Rutgers - State University of New Jersey, USA SAVOY Jacques, Université de Neuchatel, Switzerland SMEATON Alan, Dublin City University, Ireland TAKENOBU Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan TZANETAKIS George, University of Victoria, Canada van RIJSBERGEN Keith, University of Glasgow, UK WILKINSON Ross, CSIRO, Australia XU Guangyou, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China ZHANG Zhengyou, Microsoft Research, USA ZHAO Rong, State university of New York, USA ZHOU Ming, Microsoft Research, Hong Kong, China ZREIK Khaldoun, Université de Caen, France