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Fri Sep 18 1998

Confs: RIFRA' 98

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1. Jean-Luc Minel, Announcing RIFRA' 98

RIFRA' 98
International Workshop on Extraction, Filtering and Automatic
Summarization

Sfax Centre Hotel, Sfax - TUNISIA
11-14 November, 1998

Organised by :
LARIS Laboratory (FSEG - Sfax )
CAMS, LALIC group (CNRS - EHESS - University Paris Sorbonne)

Supported by :
Cycle de Formation Doctorale en Informatique - ENSI-FST, Tunisia
Ministre de l'Enseignement Suprieur, Tunisia
Secrtariat d'tat la Recherche Scientifique, Tunisia
cole Doctorale de l'Universit Paris-Sorbonne, France
AUPELF/UREF
Ministre de la Recherche et de la Technologie, France


Call for participation

For several years, the scientific community has demonstrated an increasing
and recurrent great interest for automatic methods concerning extract
construction, summaries and specialised information filtering. The recently
organised conferences in this field have focussed on the diversity of
approaches (statistics, neuronal nets, symbolic, linguistics, cognitive,
...) but they
haven't always led to either comparison between obtained results or
highlighting the aimed objectives not always emphasized either the
comparison between obtained results, or highlighting the aimed finalities
(document selection, technological awakening, writing assistance,
information synthesis, elaboration of summary model, . ..).

RIFRA'98 will focus in particular on the following topics:

*	Information extraction.
*	Information filtering (Web, Corpus, CD-ROM, ...).
*	Automatic summarization.
*	Performance evaluation methodology of automatic summarization systems.

This workshop aims also at establishing future collaboration between
researchers, users, and industrialists in the field of automatic
summarization.

To reach these objectives, the total number of participants will be limited
to 25 up to 40. A
particular interest will be granted to discussions that will follow
communications, a panel will be organised for each theme.

Official Languages :
Oral communications will be in French and English. There won't be
simultaneous translation.
Program :
PROGRAMME

TUESDAY, 10 November1998 ================
	19:00 - 21:00 Registration
WEDNESDAY , 11 November 1998 ================
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:00 General session(A. Ben Hamadou, J.P. Descls, J.L Minel)
10:00 - 10:30 Official opening

10:30 - 11:00 Coffe break

* Session N1 : Automatic Filtering (1)
*
Chairman : Mohammed MOALLA
11:00-12:00 : Udo Hahn 
	Automatic Extracting - A Poor Man's Approach to Automatic Abstracting
12:00-12:45
	Analyse Automatique des textes : L'exemple des expressions dfinitoires
Author : Emanuel Cartier (CAMS, Paris)
12:45-13:30
	Reprage d'objets textuels fonctionnels pour le filtrage
d'information :le cas de la dfinition Authors : Josette Rebeyrolle &
Marie-Paule Woodley
(Universit Toulouse le Mirail, Toulouse)

13:30 -15:00 Lunch

* Session N2 : Automatic Filtering (2)
Chairman : Udo HAHN
15:00-15:45
	La segmentation pour l'indexation d'un document technique : principe et
mthodes
Authors : Genevive Lallich & Tarek Ouerfelli (Laboratoire GRESEC, Grenoble)
15:45 - 16:30
	Exploration, pour l'laboration de requtes de filtrage de textes, des
connaissances causales dtectes par Coatis
Author : Daniela Garcia (EDF/DER, Paris)

16:30 - 17:00: Coffe Break

17:00 - 17:45 :
	Filtrage automatique de phrases temporelles d'un texte
Author : Rim Faiz (Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Carthage)
17:45 - 18 : 30
	Classification du verbe arabe et stockage des donnes en vue de
l'analyseautomatique des textes
Authors : Everhard Ditters, Mohamed Hassoun (Universit des Nimgue, Nimgue)

THURSDAY , 12 November 1998 ================

8: 00 - 9:00 : Michel Charolles (Confrence invite )
	L'organisation du texte, le filtrage et le rsum.

* Session N3 : Gnration de rsums
 Chairman: Rafik BOUAZIZ

9 :00 - 9 :45
	Automatic Summarization by paragraph initial sentences extraction

Author : Pieter A. M. Seuren (Nijmegen University, Nijmegen)
10:00 - 10:45 :
	Where does information come from? Corpus Analysis for Automatic
Abstracting
Authors : Horacio Saggion & Guy Lapalme (Universit de Montral, Montral)

10:45 - 11:15 : Coffe break

11:15 - 12:00
	On The Real Time Elision of Text
Authors : I. Marshall, F. Pezeshkpour, J. A. Bangham (University of East
Anglia, Norwich)
12:00 - 12:45:
	Utilisation de schmas de rsums en vue d'amliorer la qualit des
extraits et de rsums automatiques
Authors : Ellouze Mariem & Ben Hamadou Abdelmajid (Laris, Sfax)
12:45 - 13:30:
	Une architecture gnrique base sur le raisonnement par cas pour
produire des rsums
Authors : Laurence Capus & Nicole Tourigny (Universit Laval Sainte-Foy,
Laval)

13:30 -15:00 : Lunch

* Session N4 : Information Extraction
Chairman : Michel Charolles
15:00-15:45
	Une mthode de production d'extraits base sur leurs classements 
l'aide d'un algorithme gntique Authors : Jaoua Maher & Ben Hamadou
Abdelmajid (Laris, Sfax)
15:45-16:30:
	EXIBUM : Un systme exprimental d'extraction d'information bilingue
Authors : Leila Kosseim &Guy Lapalme (Universit de Montral, Montral)

16:30 - 17:00 Coffe break

17:00 - 17:45
Extraction d'information : adaptation lexicale et calcul dynamique du sens
Author : Thierry Poibeau (Thomson-CSF, Orsay)
17:45 - 18:30
Table ronde : Elaboration d'un projet de coopration sur le filtrage
Automatique

FRIDAY , 13 November 1998 ================
 outing.

SATURDAY , 14 Novembre 1998 ================

9: 00 - 10:00 Confrence invite (J-G. Meunier)
	La gestion de la connaissances dans les entreprises et les
intelliciels.

* Session N5 : Recherche d'informations sur le WEB
Chairman : Pieter SEUREN

9:00-9:45 :
Classes d'vnements et synthse des services Web d'actualit
Authors : Pierre-Yves FOUCOU ( Universit Paris XIII, Villetaneuse)
9:45-10:30:
Optimisation du choix de la terminologie pour la reformulation de requtes
Authors : S. Kanoun & B. Dousset (IRIT, Toulouse)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffe break

11:00 - 11:45
	Reformulation de requtes et extraction de phrases pertinentes pour la
collecte d'informations sur le Web
Authors : Leila Nait-Baha & Agata Jackiewicz & Philippe Laublet (CAMS, Paris)
11:45 - 12:30
	COGNIWEB Modlisation hybride linguistique et numrique pour un
outil de
filtrage d'informations sur les rseaux
Authors : Christophe Jouis &Widad Mustafa El-Hadi & Vincent Rialle
(Universit
Charles de Gaulle, Lille, Universit Joseph Fourier, Grenoble)

12:30 -14 :30 : lunch

Session N6 : Tools for filtering and extraction
 Prsident : Mr Abdellatif ABID

14:30 - 15:15 :
	La paraphrase entre l'Analyse et la Gnration : Systme 3AD (Aide 
l'Analyse Automatique du Discours)
Authors : Ismail Timimi & Salaheddine Ben Ali (Universit Stendhal, Grenoble )
15:15 - 16:30:
	Abstraction Incrmentale des donnes: Application l'extraction de
l'information pertinente
Authors : H. Belad Ajroud &Ali Jaoua & R. Khcherif (Universit deTunis,
Tunis)
16:30 - 17:15:
	Systme de navigation dans une base de donnes documentaire
utilisant le thesaurus rectangulaire : 'Navigateur 2000'
Authors : M. M. Gammoudi & N. Bani & S. Sofiene & Z. Abdelouahab
(Universit de
Tunis, Tunis)

17 :15 Coktail
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Registration
Registration should be sent to the following address using the enclosed form.


Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou
Facult des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax,
Laboratoire LARIS
B.P. 1088,
3018 Sfax, Tunisie

Fax : (216) 4 279 139
Tel : (216) 4 278 777
Email : abdelmajid.benhamadoufsegs.rnu.tn


Registration fees include a copy of the proceedings, lunches (Wednesday,
Thursday and Saturday), Break Coffees and dinner of Thursday.

Accommodations
The Sfax Centre Hotel (where the Workshop will be held) offer special
prices for participants:
50 Tunisian Dinars (250 French Francs) per night for one person.
Participants who wish to make reservation in this hotel should contact the
hotel as soon as possible.

Sfax Centre Hotel
Tel : (216) 4 225 700
Fax : (216) 4 225 521

Travelling :

By plane :
There are direct flights between Paris and Sfax and some other European
towns.
For those who wish to come via Tunis, " Tunis Air" company allows two
flights per week
(Tuesday and Thursday) between Sfax and Tunis. The flight takes 1 hour.

Departure from Tunis at 5 p.m. 30 min.
Departure from Sfax at 6 am 45 min

By Train :
There is a daily train (with a confort class) connecting Sfax to Tunis (the
trip takes 4 hours).
Departure from Tunis at: 7 am 10 min, 1 p.m. 5 min, 2 p.m. 5min, 5 p.m. 30
min, 9 p.m. 20 min.

By bus and taxis
There are buses and collective taxis connecting Sfax to Tunis and many
other Tunisian towns.
Schedules depend on each company and are not punctual. We do not recommend
participants to take collective taxis.

Tourism
An excursion is planned for Friday.
Sfax has a nice medina (old town) with a medieval architecture.
Kerkenah Island is near Sfax and could be reached by boat (90 minutes).
The Tunisian south (and its oasis, Tozeur, Nefta, etc .) could be reached
by airmail or by car.

Program committee
Andr Abou, Ecole Doctorale d'Ingnierie
Linguistique
Abdel Belad, CRIN- Nancy
Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, LARIS Sfax
Emna Ben Mefteh, LARIS Sfax
Michel Charolles, LANDISCO Nancy
Jean-Pierre Descls, CAMS Paris
Udo Hahn Freiburg University
Chritian Flurh, CEA
Ali Jaoua, ERPAH Tunis
Farouk Kammoun, ENSI Tunis
Jean-Guy Meunier, LANCI UQUAM
Jean-Luc Minel, CAMS Paris
Pieter Seuren, U. NIJMEGEN


Organising committee

Lamia Belguith, LARIS Sfax
Emna Ben Mefteh, LARIS Sfax
Mariem Ellouze, LARIS Sfax
Maher Jaoua, LARIS Sfax
Jean-Luc Minel, CAMS Paris


Registration form

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Registration fees :
*	Students 85 $ US (500 FF) (Please send a copy of the inscription)
*	University Staff $ US (1000 FF)
*	Others 210$ US (1250 FF)

Payment : Bank transfer
Recipient : Association d'innovation et de la technologie"
Account number : 11 70 10 03 66 56 30 17 88 39.TND
Bank : UBCI, Agency Chebbi Sfax
	 Sfax - Tunisia
Registration deadline :	10 November 1998

Registration form should be sent with a receipt indicating the
Registration fees transfer.
*	by mail to the following address:
 Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou
 Facult des Sciences Economique et de Gestion de Sfax
 Laboratoire LARIS
 B.P 1088 3018 Sfax, Tunisia

*	or by Fax to the following fax number : 216 4 279 139