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limsi.fr>RIAO 2000 6th Conference on "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access" College de France Paris, France April 12-14, 2000 _______________ Advance Program _______________ 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) Under the sponsorship of : the European Commission, the French Ministry of Education, Research and Technology, the DGA, the CEA, ELRA and ELSNET With the collaboration of: AII, ASIS, ESCA and AUF/Francil _______________ For the detailed Advance Program, please visit our Web site: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO ______________ 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 distribution venues, 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 cross-discipline initiatives and innovative applications. RIAO 2000 will present recent scientific progress, demonstrations of prototypes resulting from this research as well as the most innovative products now appearing on the market. 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, France (1985), M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass. USA (1988), Barcelona, Spain (1991), Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., USA (1994) and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1997). The Conference Advance Program is highlighted by contributions of authors from 26 countries. The program includes 2 invited speakers, 3 panel sessions, 3 plenary sessions, 8 poster sessions and 16 oral sessions. Among all sessions are 146 papers (73 oral and 73 poster presentations), providing a unique opportunity to present and discuss in depth the state-of-the-art in this rapidly growing scientific and technological field. There will also be many innovative application demonstrations presented by companies from different countries. The application committee has already selected 19 of them covering various applications such as crosslingual English-Arabic Internet search, recognition of printed and handwritten texts, television archives retrieval, sign language indexing, machine translation, etc. The RIAO 2000 Conference Advance Program includes sessions on the following topics: *Plenary sessions: - Content-Based Information Access: from Text to Speech, Image and Multimodality - The Web and the Electronic Book - Radio & TV Broadcast Retrieval * Oral and Poster sessions: Document Processing: - Navigation, User Adaptation & Document Creation - Combining Image & Language Information Retrieval: - Internet & Cross-Language Information Retrieval - Information Retrieval Systems & Techniques - Interactive & Multimedia Information Retrieval - Information Retrieval Methods - Classification & Clustering - Filtering, NLP & Text Retrieval - Information Visualization Spoken Language and Audio Processing: - Speech and Information Retrieval - Speech & Multimedia Processing Techniques - Musical Information Processing Natural Language Processing: - Multilingual Document Handling & Machine Translation - Terminology - NLP Techniques for Document Processing - NLP Methods Image processing: - Scanned Document Analysis - Image & Video Processing Techniques - Image Indexing, Browsing & Retrieval - Video Indexing, Browsing & Retrieval - System Architecture, Usage and Applications - Evaluation and Best Practice * Panel sessions: - Multilingual Information Access - Information Retrieval Evaluation Worldwide - Usage of Information Retrieval Systems For more information on the program, conference location and registration, please visit our Web site : http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO or contact us at: - For all scientific and technical matters: riao2000Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue