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========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 5TH RIAO CONFERENCE COMPUTER ASSISTED INFORMATION SEARCHING ON INTERNET 25th-27th June 1997 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7,Canada, ========================================================= "RIAO 97" will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO 85 took place in France, RIAO 88 at MIT (Cambridge MA., U.S.A.), RIAO 91 in Barcelona, Spain, and RIAO 94 in New York. The Conference is organized by the "CENTRE DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES D'INFORMATIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE" (CID) Paris. Facing the growth of document information available throught the Internet way (Web sites, NewsGroups or emails), it is necessary to offer new technologies, mechanisms and systems to manage all that information. The huge amount of information implies rapid indexing and retrieval engines, efficient datamining and knowledge discovery systems in oder to find relevant or strategic information. On one hand,linguistic tools are necessary when managing textual information ; one the other hand specifics problems have to be solved regarding the management of multimedia information : multimedia information characterisation, search mechanisms, multimedia interfaces. Tools are also necessary to deal with the diversity of the information source. Where is the relevant information stored? Which are the best sources? How can heterogeneous repositories be queried, ...? Finally, the current ways of diffusing information such as the Internet lead to security problems that must not be overlooked. The purpose of this conference is to confront specialists in media contents with specialists in Web-based searching. More specifically, papers are expected to cover one or more of the following topics : A - Rapid indexing and retrieval engines, automatic abstracting B - Evaluation of linguistic tools in information retrieval C - Information Retrieval from several repositories - Identification of duplicated documents in different repositories (different languages, structures or versions), - Unification of documents from heterogeneous repositories ; datawarehousing, - Interest of the use of datamining and knowledge discovery strategies when querying large repositories, - Evaluation of repository for a given search strategy. D - Technology watch techniques using strategy on the Web ; content adressable electronic mail, news group, WWW systems. E - Architecture - How can large data flows be exploited by information retrieval tools, - Distributed, multi-agent architectures F - Image - Image content characterisation, human and automatic image description methods, - Image search strategies G - Sound - Sound content characterisation, - Automatic identification of sound type: speech, music..., - Spoken language recognition, - Word-spotting. H - Content-based compression techniques I - Multimedia interfaces : Iconic, navigational, speech interface to web search J - Data security problems: copyright protection, internet crime K - Web-related international conventions and policies - ------------------------------------ PROGRAM CHAIRS : C. Chrisment (French Chair), L. Devroye (Canadian chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE : =================== J. ARAMBERRI (SP) J.C. BASSANO (F) P. BRUZA (AUS) R. CENCIONI (EEC) D.G. ELLIMAN (UK) C. FLUHR (F) G. GREFENSTETTE (F) J.C. GUEDON (CAN) J. HAN (CAN) D. HARMAN (USA) J.P. HATON (F) U. HEID (D) C. JACQUEMIN (F) G. KIKUI (J) R.R. KORFHAGE (USA) J. H. LEE (KOR) P. LOPISTEGUY (SP) R. MARCUS (USA) B. MERIALDO (F) A. MOFFAT (AUS) J. MOTHE (F) S. H. MYAENG (Kor) T. PRABHAKAR (Ind) S. ROBERTSON (UK) T. SARACEVIC (USA) P. SCHAUBLE (Switz) F. SEBASTIANI (I) V. SEMENOVA (RUS) S. TOHME (F) R. WILKINSON (Aus) ================================= IMPORTANT DATES : =================== Closing date for submission: 20 January 1997 Notification of acceptance: 10 March 1997 Camera-ready copy: 10 May 1997 Conference start-date: 25 June 1997 SUBMISSIONS : ============== Email submissions in Postscript or ASCII form are encouraged. Otherwise, five hard copies, no more than 20 pages (abstract) of the manuscripts should be submitted. o Email submissions should be sent to : riao9721 Nov 1996 10:10:48 -0300">Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue