Web site: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO RIAO 2000 6th Conference on "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access" College de France Paris, France April 12-14, 2000 CALL FOR PAPERS & APPLICATION DEMONSTRATIONS 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 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. 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. 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. 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.). RIAO 2000 Conference Topics, under the "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access" theme: 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... PROGRAM The Scientific Program will include invited talks, presentations of accepted papers in oral and poster sessions, referenced demonstrations of innovative applications and products, and possibly deal sessions, between industry and academia, and panel sessions. There will be parallel sessions, devoted to a given research field, and plenary sessions, presenting topics of interest for all participants. The mode of presentation (oral versus poster) will be based on the appropriateness of the paper to that mode of communication, not on the quality of the paper. CALL FOR PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit short or long papers on the conference topics. The papers will be reviewed by the International Scientific Committee, and selected on the basis of their scientific and technological quality, their innovative content and their relevance to the topic of the conference. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Innovative applications and products related to the conference topics are sought for demonstration at special conference sessions. They will be selected by the International Application Committee, on the basis of their innovation, utility, and present and future marketability. Selected applications will be given free demonstration space. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submission of short papers should consist of a summary of about 1000 words (up to 2 pages), together with the answers to the enclosed questionnaire, in ASCII format. In the proceedings, short papers will be of about 3000 words + figures (up to 10 pages, double-spaced). Submission of long papers should consist of the full paper of about 6000 words + figures (up to 20 pages, double-spaced), including an abstract of up to 200 words, as an attached file in PDF or PS format. If a demo is connected to a paper, please attach the outline of the demonstration to the paper. Submission of proposed application and product demonstrations will be reviewed in the same way, and should consist of a summary of about 1000 words (up to 2 pages). A questionnaire to be filled out will be sent by the Application Committee after reception of this summary. All the submissions should include a separate title page, providing the following information: the type of proposal (paper or application - in the case of a paper submission, please also indicate if it is a short or long paper, the preferred mode of presentation (oral versus poster) and whether the paper is accompanied by a demonstration); the title to be printed in the program of the Conference; the topic of the proposal (from the list of Conference topics); up to 5 keywords, the names and affiliations of the authors or proposers; the full address of the first author (or of the contact person), including telephone, fax, email, URL and the required facilities (overhead projector, data videoprojector, other hardware, platforms, workstations, communications etc). PROTOTYPE AND PRODUCT DEMONSTRATIONS Internet connections and various computer platforms and facilities should be available at the Conference site. In addition to referenced Application and Product demonstrations, it may be possible to run unreferenced demos of products, prototypes, systems, applications or tools. Those interested should contact the Application Committee Chairman: Gregory Grefenstette (Gregory.Grefenstette@xrce.xerox.com). LANGUAGE The working language of the conference is English. However, in agreement with the French regulations ("Loi Toubon"), submission of papers in French, and presentation of papers (if selected) in French will be accepted. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Submission should be made preferably electronically. Two hard copies of the submitted paper should also be sent by mail to the Conference secretariat. The submission deadline applies to the electronic submission. Submission of papers should be sent to "Riao2000@limsi.fr", indicating "Paper Submission" or "Application Submission" in the subject field of the Email header. Electronic submissions will be acknowledged within 48 hours. If they are not acknowledged, please check the Email address and resubmit. Submission of a proposal implies a commitment to present the paper or the demonstration at the conference, if accepted. SUBMISSION IN HARD COPY You may also submit only hard copies. In this case, please send five paper copies, together with the Paper or Application Demonstration Submission Form, to the Conference Secretariat. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION Authors of accepted papers will be asked to send a typed manuscript. Details regarding the format of the final papers will be sent together with the notification of acceptance. Ready-to-print files will be required by January 15, 2000. 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) 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) CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: 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: Chair: 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 23, 1999 - Submission deadline: November 8, 1999 - Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1999 - Submission of complete papers: January 15, 2000 - Final Program: January 25, 2000 - Conference: April 12-14, 2000 VENUE The conference will take place at the prestigious College de France, in the heart of the Quartier Latin in Paris. College de France is an institution of higher learning founded in Paris, France, in 1529 by Francois Ier at the instigation of Guillaume Bude. It was founded to encourage humanistic studies and has always been independent of any university and free from supervision. Now its range of studies encompasses numerous humanistic and scientific fields. Its faculty includes many distinguished scholars. The College de France has brand new conference facilities. Its situation in downtown Paris allows easy accommodation, with a lot of hotels, restaurants and cafes nearby. PROJECT MEETINGS AND SATELLITE WORKSHOPS Projects or working groups wishing to take this opportunity for organizing meetings should contact the Conference Secretariat for assistance in arranging meeting facilities. Those wishing to take the opportunity of RIAO2000 to organize a satellite workshop should also indicate their initiative to the Conference secretariat as soon as possible. CONFERENCE ADDRESSES The chair of the Scientific Committee is: Joseph MARIANI LIMSI-CNRS BP 133 91403 ORSAY Cedex France Tel.: (33 / 0) 1 69 85 80 85 Fax : (33 / 0) 1 69 85 80 88 Email: mariani@limsi.fr The co-chair of the Scientific Committee is: Donna HARMAN Information Access and User Interfaces Division (894) Technology Building (225), Room A219 NIST 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8940 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8940 USA Tel. : (1) (301) 975-3569 Email: donna.harman@nist.gov The chair of the Application Committee is: Gregory GREFENSTETTE Xerox Research Centre Europe 6 chemin de Maupertuis 38240 Meylan France Tel.: (33 / 0) 4 76 61 50 82 Fax : (33 / 0) 4 76 61 50 99 Email: Gregory.Grefenstette@xrce.xerox.com The co-chair of the Application Committee is: Pascal FAUDEMAY LIP6 4, Place Jussieu F 75252 Paris Cedex 05 France Tel: (33 / 0) 1 44 27 71 16 Fax: (33 / 0) 1 44 27 71 16 Email: Pascal.Faudemay@lip6.fr The Conference Secretariat, which will provide general information on the Conference, is: RIAO 2000 Secretariat 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 Email: riao2000@limsi.fr C.I.D. For more information about C.I.D. (Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaires), please contact: Ms Agnes Beriot Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaires (C.I.D.) Email: cidcol@club-internet.fr