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Jian-Yun Nie | Dept. d'Informatique et Recherche operationnelle mailto:nie@iro.umontreal.ca | Universite de Montreal Tel: (514) 343-2263 | C.P. 6128, succursale CENTRE-VILLE Fax: (514) 343-5834 | Montreal (Quebec), H3C 3J7 Canada bureau 2343, Pavillon Andre-Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la tour
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Call For Participation
RIAO'97 CONFERENCE Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet June 25-27, 1997 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 [note: RIAO in CAPS]
Brief Description : ---------------------
Every three years the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Information Documentaire (CID) of Paris, France, along with various international affiliates, organizes an RIAO conference (RIAO is the French acronym for Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval) under the sponsorship of European Community (EC), Ministere des affaires etrangeres, Ministere de l'industrie, Secretariat d'etat a la recherche (France), Ministere de l'industrie, du commerce, de la science et de la technologie (Quebec) and CRIM (Canada). RIAO97 will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO85 was held in Grenoble, France; RIAO88 at MIT; RIAO91 in Barcelona; and RIAO94 at Rockefeller University in New York.
RIAO conferences have the special feature of incorporating both scientific papers and innovative product demonstrations. Both the product demonstrations and the scientific papers (which are often accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are subject to a rigorous selection process. The mix of scientific expertise and state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical examination of both aspects, stimulating both new product development, ecnouraging sponsorship of start-ups, as well as initiating lines of further, critical research investigations.
RIAO97 focuses on new problems in information retrieval, filtering, and dissemination resulting from the recent profusion and extensions of networks. In particular, RIAO97 brings together search specialists and web-based media specialists to consider how searching can best be accomplished in the context of the proliferation of web sites, content formats, browsing modalities, amount of data accessible, and number of user accesses.
------------------------------------------ FINAL PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE
GENERAL SESSION June 25, 1997 ------------------------------------------
9:00-9:15 a.m WELCOMING STATEMENT Dr B. Robaire Vice Principal, Research McGill University, Canada
9:15-9:30 a.m RIAO97' Introduction J. Thuiller Professor at the College de France President of the C.I.D.
9:30-10:00 a.m Invited Speaker GILS Projet N. Brodie National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada --------------------------------- SESSION 1: INFORMATION DISCOVERY --------------------------------- Chairman: L. Devroye, McGill University
10:00-10:25 a.m "The Do-I-Care Agent: Effective Social Discovery and Filtering on the Web" M.S. Ackerman, B. Starr, M. Pazzani University of California, USA
10:25-10:50 a.m "Mining Information In Order To Extract Hidden And Strategical Information" T.Dkaki, B. Dousset, J. Mothe Universite P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France
10:50-11:20 a.m Break and Demonstrations ---------------------------------------------------------- SESSION 2: VISUALISATION TOOLS FOR INFORMATION NAVIGATION ---------------------------------------------------------- Chairman: S. Tohme, ENST France
11:20-11:45 a.m "Design Issues for World Wide Web Navigation Visualisation Tools" A. Cockburn, S. Jones University of Canterbury, University of Waikato, New Zealand
11:45-12:10 a.m "Footprints: History-Rich Web Browsing" A. Wexelblat, P. Maes Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
12:10-12:35 p.m "Using terminological base for Term-based information retrieval" J-Y Nie, Universite de Montreal, Canada
12:35-2:05 p.m LUNCH ------------------------------------------------ SESSION 3: AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING, REPOSITORIES ------------------------------------------------ Chairman: G. Grefenstette, Rank Xerox Research Centre
2:05-2:30 p.m "Development of a Document Summarization System for Effective Information Services" D. H. Jang, S. H. Myaeng Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea
2:30-2:55 p.m "Automatic summarization on the Web? RAFI: A system for summarizing using indicating fragments" A. Lehmam, Universite de Nancy II, France
2:55-3:20 p.m "Towards Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information Repositories" B. Chidlovskii, U. M. Borghoff, P.Y. Chevalier Rank Xerox Research Centre, France
3:20-3:45 p.m "Annotating the World Wide Web using Natural Language" B. Katz, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA
3:45-4:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations --------------------------------------------------------- SESSION 4: LINGUISTIC APPROACH FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL --------------------------------------------------------- Chairman: R. Cencioni, European Community
4:15-4:40 p.m "IRENA: Information Retrieval Engine based on Natural Language Analysis" A.T. Arampatzis ,T. Tsoris, C.H.A. Koster. Patras, Greece and Netherlands
4:40-5:05 p.m "The Effect of Syntactic Phrase Indexing on Retrieval Performance for Dutch Texts" R. Pohlmann , W. Kraaij Utrecht University, TNO-TPD, Netherlands
5:05-5:30 p.m "Using Simulated Annealing to Understand Natural Language Texts" S.A. Laribi, G. Desrocques, A. Laribi, J.C. Bassano Universite d'Orleans, France. Geneva Univeristy, Switzerland
5:30-5:55 p.m "An Analysis of Statistical and Syntactic Phrases" M. Mitra, C. Buckley, A. Singhal, C. Cardie Cornell University, USA ----------------------------------- June 26, 1997 SESSION 5: MULTILINGUAL APPROACH ---------------------------------- Chairman: C. Fluhr, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique. France
9:00-9:25 a.m "Multi-Language Text Indexing for Internet Retrieval" M.Wechsler, P. Sheridan, P. Schauble Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
9:25-9:50 a.m "Adaptative Filtering of Multilingual Document Streams" D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA
9:50-10:15 a.m "A domain Specific Lexicon Acquisition Tool for Cross-Language Information Retrieval" D. Hiemstra, F. de Jong, W. Kraaij CTIT, Twente University, Netherlands
10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations
---------------------------- SESSION 6: IRS ARCHITECTURE ---------------------------- Chairman: R. Marcus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
10:45-11:10 a.m "EAGLE: An Extensible Architecture for General Linguistic Engineering" B. Baldwin , C. Doran, J.C. Reynar
11:10-11:35 a.m "Information Retrieval On The Word Wide Web using a Decision Making System" F. Corvaisier, A. Mille, J.M. Pinon, INSA, Lyon, France
11:35-12:00 a.m "A Multiagent Architecture for Information Retrieval on the World-Wide Web" V.N. Gudivada, S.P. Tolety Wayne State University, University of Missouri. USA
12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH --------------------------------- SESSION 7: INFORMATION EXTRACTION ---------------------------------
Chairman: C. Jacquemin, Universite de Nantes. France
1:30-2:45 p.m Panel TREC in Many Languages * TREC-5: English D. Harman National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA * TREC-5: Spanish and Chinese A. Smeaton Dublin City University, Ireland *The Amaryllis Project C. Fluhr Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France
2:45-3:10 p.m "Integrated text categorisation and information extraction using pattern matching and linguistic processing" W. J. Black, L. Gilardoni, F. Rinaldi, R Dressel UMIST, UK. Quinary Spa, Italy
3:10-3:35 p.m "On-Line Resource Discovery using Natural Language" O.R. Zaine , A. Fall, S. Rochefort, V. Dahl, P. Tarau Simon Fraser University, Canada
3:35-4:00 p.m "Coupling information retrieval and information extraction: A new text technology for gathering information from the web" R. Gaizauskas, A.M. Robertson University of Sheffield, UK
4:00-4:30 p.m Break and Demonstrations ---------------------------------------- SESSION 8: DOCUMENT / RELEVANCE RANKING ---------------------------------------- Chairman: D.J. Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.
4:30-4:55 p.m "Summarizing Similarities and differences Among Related Documents" I. Mani , E. Bloedorn The MITRE Corporation, USA
4:55-5:20 p.m "Relevance Ranking for One to Three Term Queries" C.L.A. Clarke , G.V. Cormack, E.A. Tudhope University of Toronto. Canada
5:20-5:45 p.m "Space Optimizations for Total Ranking" D.R. Cutting, J.O. Pedersen Excite Inc., USA
5:45-6:10 p.m "A Similarity-Based Agent for Internet Searching" T.G. Rose, P. J. Wyard, Canon, UK ------------------------------- June 27, 1997 SESSION 9: IRS ARCHITECTURE- II ------------------------------- Chairman: U. Heid, Stuttgart University, Germany
9:00-9:25 a.m "ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discovery" F. Menczer , R.K. Belew University of California, USA
9:25-9:50 a.m "Cobra: A new approach to IR System design" T. Mills, K. Moody, K. Rodden University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. UK
9:50-10:15 a.m "Interactive Image Retrieval by Means of Abductive Inference" A. Muller, A. Everts GMD. Germany
10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations --------------------------------- SESSION 10: QUERY REFORMULATION --------------------------------- Chairman: J.C. Bassano, Universite d'Orleans France.
10:45-11:10 a.m "Query modification based on relevance backpropagation" M. Boughanem, C. Soule-Dupuy MSI, Universite de Limoges, France
11:10-11:35 a.m "Query ReFormulation on the Internet: Empirical Data and the Hyperindex Search Engine" P.D. Bruza , S. Dennis Queensland University of Technology, Australia
11:35-12:00 a.m SQLET: Short Query Linguistic Expansion Techniques: Palliating One or Two-word Queries by Providing Intermediate Structure to WWW Pages G. Grefenstette Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France
12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH --------------------------------- SESSION 11: INFORMATION FILTERING --------------------------------- Chairman: V. Semenova, ANALIT, Moscow
1:30-1:55 p.m "Probabilistic Learning for Information Filtering" G. Amati , F. Crestani, F. Ubaldini, S. de Nardis Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Universita di Padova, Universita di Roma, Italy
1:55-2:20 p.m "Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering: A Comparative Study of Part-of-speech Tagging and Supertagging" R. Chandrasekar , B. Srinivas University of Pennsylvania, USA
2:20-2:45 p.m "Querying Hierarchical Text and Acyclic Hypertext with Generalized Context-Free Grammars" Y. Marcoux, M. Sevigny Universite de Montreal, Canada
2:45-3:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations ------------------------------------- SESSION 12: INFORMATION EXTRACTION II ------------------------------------- Chairman: J.P. Haton, Universite Henri-Poincare, Nancy I, France
3:15-3:40 p.m "A probabilistic model of Passage Categorization" M. Iwayama, T. Tokunaga Advanced Research Laboratory, Japan
3:40-4:05 p.m "Knowledge Discovery From Natural Language Texts" U. Hahn, K. Schnattinger Freiburg University, Germany
4:05-4:30 p.m "Extraction of Index Words from Manuals" H. Nakagawa Yokohama National University, Japan
-------------------------------- SESSION 13: JUDICIAL PROBLEMS -------------------------------- Chairman: J. Perriere, C.I.D. France
4:30-4:55 p.m "Limits of Using Data" Maitre Feral-Schuhl Ordre Des Avocats du Barreau de Paris, France.
4:55-5:20 p.m "Data Security" Maitre G. Arendt President of Computer Commission of the International Union of Lawyers, Luxemburg
5:20-5:45 p.m "Security Concerns On The Intranet" Maitre Landry Montreal, Canada. Union Internationale des Avocats.
5:45-6:15 p.m Conclusions
------------------------ CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ------------------------ Registration may be proceeded in one of the following ways: - via the WWW at http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 - by e-mail: mailto:riao97@irin.univ-nantes.fr - by fax to the CID: (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45 - or by surface mail: CID, 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France or CID, c/o Constantin and co., 575 Madison Ave, 25th Floor, NY, NY 10022, USA
------------------ Registration Fees ------------------ (before June 1, 1997): US$ 475 or CA$ 650 or 415 ECUS (from June 1, 1997): US$ 530 or CA$ 725 or 460 ECUS
Students (presenting valid Student ID): (before June 1, 1997): US$ 315 or CA$ 435 or 275 ECUS (from June 1, 1997): US$ 390 or CA$ 530 or 340 ECUS
Registration fees can be made by bank transfer:
in US dollars: CID/CASIS No: 02 050 25 061 2 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France or CASIS No: 15 39 90 34 City Bank, 460 Park Avenue and 57th Street, NY, NY 10022 USA
in Canadian dollars: CID No: 035 500 65 48 1 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France
in ECUs: CID No: 055 500 65 48 1 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France
or Credit Card payments (only VISA Card can be accepted) in writing or faxing request to C.I.D. 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France, fax (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45.
Registration includes access to all presentations and sessions, including the Working Group,Thursday morning, June 26th, and a copy of the proceedings. On-Site Registration will take place on Tuesday June 24 from 5 pm, and on Wednesday June 25, from 8 am on.
Telephones accepting credit cards are available throughout the University. Lunches can be taken at the University Cafeteria, 3840 McTavish Street. Lunch tickets will be available at the Registration Desk for $10 (Canadian) per ticket.
McGill University is located in the center of Montreal and numerous other restaurants are available nearby. An optional visit and dinner will be organized for RIAO'97 participants on June 26th at 7 p.m.
------------------- AIRFARE AND HOTELS -------------------- Reductions in air fare will be possible for flights leaving from France. Contact the CID before June 1, 1997. A block of rooms have been reserved at several hotels in Montreal at a special rate for RIAO97 participants. When you make your reservation, please indicate that you are a participant of RIAO97 Conference. In most cases, rooms will only be held at a special rate until one month before the conference.
Hotel list ----------- Chateau de Versailles 1659 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, Quebec H3H 1E3 Tel : (514) 933-3611 Fax: (514) 933-6867 price: single $ 89 per night Castel Durocher 3488 Durocher Montreal, Quebec H2X 2E1 Tel : (514) 282-1697 Fax: (514) 282-0025 price: single $ 85 per night Delta Montreal 450 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T4 Tel : (514) 286-1986 Fax: (514) 284-4306 price: single $ 119 per night Howard Johnson 475 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 2L9 Tel : (514) 842-3961 Fax: (514) 842-0945 price: single $ 98 per night Best Western Ville Marie Hotel 3407 Peel Street Montreal, Quebec Tel : (514) 288-4141 Fax: (514) 288-3021 price: single $ 99 per night Manoir Ambrose 3422 rue Stanley Montreal Canada H3A IR8 Tel : (514) 288-6922 Fax: (514) 288-5757 price: single $ 80 per night Manoir Sherbrooke 157 rue Sherbrooke West H2X 1C7 Tel : (514) 285-0895 Fax: (514) 284-1125 price: single $ 80 par nuit Casa Bella 264 rue Sherbrooke West H2X 1X9 Tel : (514) 849-2777 Fax: (514) 849-1126 price: single $ 80 per night