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