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RIAO'2004 Final Program, Avignon, France April 26-28
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Gregory Grefenstette
Mar 1, 2004, 11:36:42 AM3/1/04
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RIAO 2004 Program
Monday, April 26
08:00 - 9:30 Registration
09:30 - 10:15 Welcome from officials
10:15 - 11:00 Invited speaker
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:35 Session 1: Indexing Video, Sound and Images
The Físchlár-News-Stories System: Personalised Access to an Archive
of TV News
Alan Smeaton, Cathal Gurrin, Hyowon Lee, Kieran McDonald, Noel Murphy,
Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University
Video Summarization Based on User-Defined Constraints and Preferences
Vyacheslav Parshin, Liming Chen, Ecole Central de Lyon, Dept.
Mathématique-Informatique
The TREC VIdeo Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID): A Case Study and
Status Report
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University Wessel Kraaij, TNO TPD Paul Over,
NIST
CIMWOS: A Multimedia Retrieval System based on Combined Text, Speech
and Image Processing
Harris Papageorgiou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Lason Demiros, Nikos
Hatzigeorgiou, Georges Carayanis, Institute for Language and Speech
Processing (ILSP)
12:35 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 15:25 Session 2: Searching across Languages
Multilingual Information Retrieval with Asian Languages
Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel
Transitive CLIR Models
Wessel Kraaij, TNO Franciska de Jong, University of Twente
Interlingual Indexing across Different Languages
Kornel Marko, Udo Hahn, Linguistische Informatik Stefan Schulz,
Philipp Daumke, Medizinische Informatik
Crossing Languages in Text Retrieval via an Interlingua
Udo Hahn, Michael Poprat, Linguistische Informatik Stefan Schulz,
Joachim Wermter, Kronel Marko, Medizinische Informatik
Multilingual document clusters discovery
Benoit Mathieu, Christian Fluhr, Romaric Besançon, CEA - LIST/LIC2M
15:25 - 15:55 Break / Demonstrations
15:55 - 16:55 Session 3: Searching and Ontologies
Ontologies as Background Knowledge to Explore Document Collections
Aussenac Nathalie, Mothe Josiane, IRIT
Learning « Generalization/Specialization » Relations between Concepts
- Application for Automatically Building Thematic Document Hierarchies
Hermine Njike Fotzo, Patrick Gallinari, Lip6
Coupling Information Extraction and Data Mining for Ontology Learning
in PARMENIDES
Myra Spiliopoulou, University of Magdeburg Fabio Rinaldi, University
of Zurich Bill Black, UMIST, Manchester Gian Piero Zarri, CNRS, Paris
16:55 - 17:55 Session 4: Niche Web Systems
Combinaison de classifieurs pour le filtrage de documents
multi-médias à caractère choquant ou dangereux
Bruno Grilheres, EADS S&DE/PSI Rouen Stephan Brunessaux, EADS S&DE
Philippe Leray, PSI Rouen
Coupling Niche Browsers and Affect Analysis
Gregory Grefenstette, Yan Qu, James G. Shanahan, David A. Evans,
Clairvoyance Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Bilingual PRESRI - Integration of Multiple Research Paper Databases -
Hidetsugu Nanba, School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City
University Takeshi Abekawa, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of
Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Manabu Okumura,
Suguru Saito, Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute
of Technology
17:55 - 18:15 Cultural heritage applications
Un musée virtuel pour les spécialistes
Marie-Françoise Clergeau, Collège de France
Fabritius : base de données multilingue en ligne pour les Musées
royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique
Pierre-Yves Desaive, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
18:30 Cocktail in the "Salle de la grande audience" of the Popes'
Palace
Tuesday, April 27
09:00 - 09:45 Invited speaker
09:45 - 11:05 Session 5: Different Methods and Languages for Question
Answering
ASKMi: A Japanese Question Answering System based on Semantic Role
Analysis
Tetsuya Sakai, Yoshimi Saito, Yumi Ichimura, Makoto Koyama, Tomoharu
Kokubu, Toshihiko Manabe, Toshiba Corporate R&D Center
A Pattern Based Approach to Factoid and Definition Question Answering
Horacio Saggion, Mark Greenwood, University of Sheffield
Question-Answer Matching : Complementary Methods
Karine Lavenus, Jens Grivolla, Laurent Gillard, Patrice Bellot, LIA,
Université d'Avignon, France
MOQA - Meaning-Oriented Question-Answering
Jim Cowie, New Mexico State University, CRL Sergei Nirenburg,
University of Maryland, ILIT Tanya Korelsky, CoGenTex, Inc. Stephen
Helmreich, New Mexico State University, CRL Benoît Lavoie, CoGenTex,
Inc.
11:05 - 11:40 Break / Demonstrations
11:40 - 13:00 Session 6: Image Processing
Image Understanding using Domain Knowledge
Nicolas Zlatoff, Bruno Tellez, Atilla Baskurt, LIRIS
Improving CBIR systems by integrating semantic features
Djamel Brahmi, Djemel Ziou, Université de Sherbrooke (Canada)
Automatic generation of natural language description for images.
Patrick Hede, Pierre-Alain Moëllic, Magali Joint, Joël Bourgeoys,
Hubert Naets, CEA LIST/LIC2M
Costume: A New Feature for Video Content Indexing
Gaël Jaffré, Philippe Joly, IRIT
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:50 Session 7 (parallel session): Cooperative Searching
andusers
Group Memory Based on the Task Information
Jonathan Yu, James Thom, RMIT University Leila Alem, CSIRO
BINGO! and DAFFODIL: Personalized Exploration of Digital Libraries
and Web Sources
Martin Theobald, Max-Planck Institut für Informatik Claus-Peter Klas,
Universität Duisburg
The Generalized Web Surfer
Ayman Farahat, Francine Chen, Palo Alto Research Center
Improving Ontology-Based User Profiles
Joana Trajkova, Susan Gauch, University of Kansas
14:30 - 15:50 Poster session (parallel session)
OWL-based reasoning with retractable inference
Carlo Jelmini, Stephane Marchand-Maillet, Viper Group - University of
Geneva
Browsing and searching e-encyclopaedias
Ruth Wilson, Julie Shortreed, Monica Landoni, University of
Strathclyde
An Experiment with Ontology Mapping using Concept Similarity
Robert Villa, Ruth Wilson, Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde
Coupling OWL with MPEG-7 and TV-Anytime for Domain-specific
Multimedia Information Integration and Retrieval
Chrisa Tsinaraki, Panagiotis Polydoros, Nektarios Moumoutzis, Stavros
Christodoulakis, Lab. of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems
and Applications (MUSIC/TUC)
Speaker segments regroupment
Liming Chen, Aliaksandr Paradzinets, Ecole Centrale de Lyon
Rich Document Representation for Document Clustering
Azam Jalali, Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering,
University of Tehran, Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong in
Dubai
Audio Documents Analysis And Indexing: Entropy And Dynamism Criteria
Liming Chen, Dept. Mathématiques Informatique, Ecole Centrale de Lyon,
France Eugeny Bovbel, Hanna Lukashevich, Department of Radiophysics,
Byelorussian Denis Mitrofanov, Department of Radiophysics,
Byelorussian State University, Belarus
Suivi du Locuteur dans des Discours Multimédia
Halim Sayoud, Siham Ouamour, USTHB
Information retrieval on mixed written and spoken documents
Benoit Favre, Patrice Bellot, Jean-François Bonastre, Laboratoire
d'Informatique d'Avignon
Modélisation de connaissances et fouille d'informations par la
cartographie dynamique : application de veille technologique avec
Matheo Analyzer
Mylene Leitzelman, H Dou, J Kister, Faculte Sciences et Techniques de
St-Jérôme
Improving the Precision of a Closed-Domain Question-Answering System
with Semantic Information
Hai Doan-Nguyen, Leila Kosseim, Department of Computer Science,
Concordia University
Retrieving what's relevant in audio and video: statistics and
linguistics in combination
Anthony Davis,Phil Rennert, Robert Rubinoff, Tim Sibley, Evelyne
Tzoukermann
StreamSageToward Tacit Information Retrieval
Daniel Memmi, IMAG Grenoble
Automating Indexing of Classes and Conferences
Jean-Claude Moissinac, François Yvon, Slim Ben Hazez, GET/ENST
Indexation automatique de documents par combinaison d'analyses
statistiques et terminologiques structurées
Lyne Da Sylva, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de
l'information, Université de Montréal
Information Retrieval and Extraction from the Web: the CROSSMARC
approach
Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine Spyropoulos, NCSR "Demokritos",
Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
15:50 - 16:10 Break / demonstrations
16:10 - 17:30 Session 8 (parallel session): User Searching, Studies
and Aids
Subject knowledge, thesaurus-assisted query expansion and search
success
Anne Sihvonen, Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere
Fetch: A Personalised Information Retrieval Tool
Innes Martin, Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow
Interfaces dynamiques de fouille textuelles
Javier Couto, Jean-Luc Minel, Laboratoire LaLICC, CNRS-Université
Paris-Sorbonne
Feedback Mechanisms for a Natural Language Interface: An Application
of the Critic Paradigm
Johannes Leveling, Fern Universität in Hagen
16:10 - 17:10 Session 9 (parallel session): New views on Relevance
Improving the Relevance-based Superimposition model for IR with
automatic keyword extraction
Teruhito Kanazawa, KYA group Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi, National
Institute of Informatics
Evaluation of Retrieval Systems without Predefined Retrieval Unit
Arjen de Vries, CWI Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary
University London
Monitoring user-system performance in interactive retrieval tasks
Liudmila Boldareva, University of Twente (UT) Arjen de Vries, National
Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Djoerd
Hiemstra, University of Twente (UT)
17:30 - 18:30 Conference given by Michel Laclotte, Directeur Général
honoraire of the Louvre Museum « L'École d'Avignon, Deux Siècles de
Peinture »
19:00 Guided tour of the "Palais des Papes"
20:15 Conference Dinner
Wednesday, April 28
09:30 - 10:50 Session 10: Mono and Multilingual Term Variation
Mining textual data through term variant clustering : the TermWatch
system
Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, ERSICOM - Université de Lyon 3 Eric Sanjuan,
LITA - Université de Metz
Knowledge Acquisition from Collections of News Articles to
Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Fatiha Sadat, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Chinese character expansion for retrieving Japanese paraphrases
Takenobu Tokunaga, Yoshiki Tezuka, Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of
Technology
Cross-Language Image Retrieval via Spoken Query
Wen-Cheng Lin, Ming-Shun Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Department of Computer
Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
10:50 - 11:15 Break / demonstrations
11:15 - 12:35 Session 11: Conceptual, Structural Retrieval, XML
Source Code Retrieval using Conceptual Similarity
Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke, ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Multimodal Indexation of Contrastive Structures in Geographical
Documents
Antoine Widlöcher, Eric Faurot, Frédérik Bilhaut, GREYC - Université
Caen
Integrating XLink and XPath to Retrieve Structured Multimedia
Documents in Digital Libraries
Zhigang Kong, Mounia Lalmas, Department of Computer Science, Queen
Mary, University of London
Using XML to Query XML - From Theory to Practice
Andrei Broder, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yoelle Maarek, Yosi
Mass, Matan Mandelbrod, IBM Haifa Research Lab
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:40 Session 12: Topic Discovery, Segmentation
Summarizing Texts at Various Levels of Detail
Marie-Francine Moens, Roxana Angheluta , Rik De Busser, Patrick
Jeuniaux, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Selective Combination of Evidence for Topic Distillation using
Document and Aggregate-level Information
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow Fidel Cacheda,
University of A Coruna
Comparing algorithms for French linear segmentation
Laurianne Sitbon, Patrice Bellot, LIA, Université d'Avignon, France
Tagging Well-known Arabic Names to Support Question-Answering Systems
Saleem Abuleil, Chicago State University
Unsupervised Learning with Term Clustering for Thematic Segmentation
of Texts
Marc Caillet, Jean-François Pessiot, Massih-Reza Amini, Patrick
Gallinari, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6
15:40 - 15:50 Break
15:50 - 17:00 Session 13: Improving Retrieval
Combining Positive and Negative Query Feedback in Passage Retrieval
Dkaki Taoufiq, Mothe Josiane, IRIT
Latent Semantic Indexing with a Variable Number of Orthogonal Factors
Georges Dupret
Word Pairs in Language Modeling for Information Retrieval
Carmen Alvarez, Philippe Langlais, Jian-Yun Nie, Université de
Montréal
A Query-based Pre-retrieval Model Selection Approach to Information
Retrieval
Ben He, Iadh Ounis, Department of Computing Science, University of
Glasgow
17:00 - 17:30 Closing session
Monday, April 26
08:00 - 9:30 Registration
09:30 - 10:15 Welcome from officials
10:15 - 11:00 Invited speaker
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:35 Session 1: Indexing Video, Sound and Images
The Físchlár-News-Stories System: Personalised Access to an Archive
of TV News
Alan Smeaton, Cathal Gurrin, Hyowon Lee, Kieran McDonald, Noel Murphy,
Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University
Video Summarization Based on User-Defined Constraints and Preferences
Vyacheslav Parshin, Liming Chen, Ecole Central de Lyon, Dept.
Mathématique-Informatique
The TREC VIdeo Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID): A Case Study and
Status Report
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University Wessel Kraaij, TNO TPD Paul Over,
NIST
CIMWOS: A Multimedia Retrieval System based on Combined Text, Speech
and Image Processing
Harris Papageorgiou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Lason Demiros, Nikos
Hatzigeorgiou, Georges Carayanis, Institute for Language and Speech
Processing (ILSP)
12:35 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 15:25 Session 2: Searching across Languages
Multilingual Information Retrieval with Asian Languages
Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel
Transitive CLIR Models
Wessel Kraaij, TNO Franciska de Jong, University of Twente
Interlingual Indexing across Different Languages
Kornel Marko, Udo Hahn, Linguistische Informatik Stefan Schulz,
Philipp Daumke, Medizinische Informatik
Crossing Languages in Text Retrieval via an Interlingua
Udo Hahn, Michael Poprat, Linguistische Informatik Stefan Schulz,
Joachim Wermter, Kronel Marko, Medizinische Informatik
Multilingual document clusters discovery
Benoit Mathieu, Christian Fluhr, Romaric Besançon, CEA - LIST/LIC2M
15:25 - 15:55 Break / Demonstrations
15:55 - 16:55 Session 3: Searching and Ontologies
Ontologies as Background Knowledge to Explore Document Collections
Aussenac Nathalie, Mothe Josiane, IRIT
Learning « Generalization/Specialization » Relations between Concepts
- Application for Automatically Building Thematic Document Hierarchies
Hermine Njike Fotzo, Patrick Gallinari, Lip6
Coupling Information Extraction and Data Mining for Ontology Learning
in PARMENIDES
Myra Spiliopoulou, University of Magdeburg Fabio Rinaldi, University
of Zurich Bill Black, UMIST, Manchester Gian Piero Zarri, CNRS, Paris
16:55 - 17:55 Session 4: Niche Web Systems
Combinaison de classifieurs pour le filtrage de documents
multi-médias à caractère choquant ou dangereux
Bruno Grilheres, EADS S&DE/PSI Rouen Stephan Brunessaux, EADS S&DE
Philippe Leray, PSI Rouen
Coupling Niche Browsers and Affect Analysis
Gregory Grefenstette, Yan Qu, James G. Shanahan, David A. Evans,
Clairvoyance Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Bilingual PRESRI - Integration of Multiple Research Paper Databases -
Hidetsugu Nanba, School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City
University Takeshi Abekawa, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of
Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Manabu Okumura,
Suguru Saito, Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute
of Technology
17:55 - 18:15 Cultural heritage applications
Un musée virtuel pour les spécialistes
Marie-Françoise Clergeau, Collège de France
Fabritius : base de données multilingue en ligne pour les Musées
royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique
Pierre-Yves Desaive, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
18:30 Cocktail in the "Salle de la grande audience" of the Popes'
Palace
Tuesday, April 27
09:00 - 09:45 Invited speaker
09:45 - 11:05 Session 5: Different Methods and Languages for Question
Answering
ASKMi: A Japanese Question Answering System based on Semantic Role
Analysis
Tetsuya Sakai, Yoshimi Saito, Yumi Ichimura, Makoto Koyama, Tomoharu
Kokubu, Toshihiko Manabe, Toshiba Corporate R&D Center
A Pattern Based Approach to Factoid and Definition Question Answering
Horacio Saggion, Mark Greenwood, University of Sheffield
Question-Answer Matching : Complementary Methods
Karine Lavenus, Jens Grivolla, Laurent Gillard, Patrice Bellot, LIA,
Université d'Avignon, France
MOQA - Meaning-Oriented Question-Answering
Jim Cowie, New Mexico State University, CRL Sergei Nirenburg,
University of Maryland, ILIT Tanya Korelsky, CoGenTex, Inc. Stephen
Helmreich, New Mexico State University, CRL Benoît Lavoie, CoGenTex,
Inc.
11:05 - 11:40 Break / Demonstrations
11:40 - 13:00 Session 6: Image Processing
Image Understanding using Domain Knowledge
Nicolas Zlatoff, Bruno Tellez, Atilla Baskurt, LIRIS
Improving CBIR systems by integrating semantic features
Djamel Brahmi, Djemel Ziou, Université de Sherbrooke (Canada)
Automatic generation of natural language description for images.
Patrick Hede, Pierre-Alain Moëllic, Magali Joint, Joël Bourgeoys,
Hubert Naets, CEA LIST/LIC2M
Costume: A New Feature for Video Content Indexing
Gaël Jaffré, Philippe Joly, IRIT
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:50 Session 7 (parallel session): Cooperative Searching
andusers
Group Memory Based on the Task Information
Jonathan Yu, James Thom, RMIT University Leila Alem, CSIRO
BINGO! and DAFFODIL: Personalized Exploration of Digital Libraries
and Web Sources
Martin Theobald, Max-Planck Institut für Informatik Claus-Peter Klas,
Universität Duisburg
The Generalized Web Surfer
Ayman Farahat, Francine Chen, Palo Alto Research Center
Improving Ontology-Based User Profiles
Joana Trajkova, Susan Gauch, University of Kansas
14:30 - 15:50 Poster session (parallel session)
OWL-based reasoning with retractable inference
Carlo Jelmini, Stephane Marchand-Maillet, Viper Group - University of
Geneva
Browsing and searching e-encyclopaedias
Ruth Wilson, Julie Shortreed, Monica Landoni, University of
Strathclyde
An Experiment with Ontology Mapping using Concept Similarity
Robert Villa, Ruth Wilson, Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde
Coupling OWL with MPEG-7 and TV-Anytime for Domain-specific
Multimedia Information Integration and Retrieval
Chrisa Tsinaraki, Panagiotis Polydoros, Nektarios Moumoutzis, Stavros
Christodoulakis, Lab. of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems
and Applications (MUSIC/TUC)
Speaker segments regroupment
Liming Chen, Aliaksandr Paradzinets, Ecole Centrale de Lyon
Rich Document Representation for Document Clustering
Azam Jalali, Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering,
University of Tehran, Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong in
Dubai
Audio Documents Analysis And Indexing: Entropy And Dynamism Criteria
Liming Chen, Dept. Mathématiques Informatique, Ecole Centrale de Lyon,
France Eugeny Bovbel, Hanna Lukashevich, Department of Radiophysics,
Byelorussian Denis Mitrofanov, Department of Radiophysics,
Byelorussian State University, Belarus
Suivi du Locuteur dans des Discours Multimédia
Halim Sayoud, Siham Ouamour, USTHB
Information retrieval on mixed written and spoken documents
Benoit Favre, Patrice Bellot, Jean-François Bonastre, Laboratoire
d'Informatique d'Avignon
Modélisation de connaissances et fouille d'informations par la
cartographie dynamique : application de veille technologique avec
Matheo Analyzer
Mylene Leitzelman, H Dou, J Kister, Faculte Sciences et Techniques de
St-Jérôme
Improving the Precision of a Closed-Domain Question-Answering System
with Semantic Information
Hai Doan-Nguyen, Leila Kosseim, Department of Computer Science,
Concordia University
Retrieving what's relevant in audio and video: statistics and
linguistics in combination
Anthony Davis,Phil Rennert, Robert Rubinoff, Tim Sibley, Evelyne
Tzoukermann
StreamSageToward Tacit Information Retrieval
Daniel Memmi, IMAG Grenoble
Automating Indexing of Classes and Conferences
Jean-Claude Moissinac, François Yvon, Slim Ben Hazez, GET/ENST
Indexation automatique de documents par combinaison d'analyses
statistiques et terminologiques structurées
Lyne Da Sylva, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de
l'information, Université de Montréal
Information Retrieval and Extraction from the Web: the CROSSMARC
approach
Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine Spyropoulos, NCSR "Demokritos",
Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
15:50 - 16:10 Break / demonstrations
16:10 - 17:30 Session 8 (parallel session): User Searching, Studies
and Aids
Subject knowledge, thesaurus-assisted query expansion and search
success
Anne Sihvonen, Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere
Fetch: A Personalised Information Retrieval Tool
Innes Martin, Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow
Interfaces dynamiques de fouille textuelles
Javier Couto, Jean-Luc Minel, Laboratoire LaLICC, CNRS-Université
Paris-Sorbonne
Feedback Mechanisms for a Natural Language Interface: An Application
of the Critic Paradigm
Johannes Leveling, Fern Universität in Hagen
16:10 - 17:10 Session 9 (parallel session): New views on Relevance
Improving the Relevance-based Superimposition model for IR with
automatic keyword extraction
Teruhito Kanazawa, KYA group Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi, National
Institute of Informatics
Evaluation of Retrieval Systems without Predefined Retrieval Unit
Arjen de Vries, CWI Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary
University London
Monitoring user-system performance in interactive retrieval tasks
Liudmila Boldareva, University of Twente (UT) Arjen de Vries, National
Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Djoerd
Hiemstra, University of Twente (UT)
17:30 - 18:30 Conference given by Michel Laclotte, Directeur Général
honoraire of the Louvre Museum « L'École d'Avignon, Deux Siècles de
Peinture »
19:00 Guided tour of the "Palais des Papes"
20:15 Conference Dinner
Wednesday, April 28
09:30 - 10:50 Session 10: Mono and Multilingual Term Variation
Mining textual data through term variant clustering : the TermWatch
system
Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, ERSICOM - Université de Lyon 3 Eric Sanjuan,
LITA - Université de Metz
Knowledge Acquisition from Collections of News Articles to
Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Fatiha Sadat, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Chinese character expansion for retrieving Japanese paraphrases
Takenobu Tokunaga, Yoshiki Tezuka, Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of
Technology
Cross-Language Image Retrieval via Spoken Query
Wen-Cheng Lin, Ming-Shun Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Department of Computer
Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
10:50 - 11:15 Break / demonstrations
11:15 - 12:35 Session 11: Conceptual, Structural Retrieval, XML
Source Code Retrieval using Conceptual Similarity
Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke, ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Multimodal Indexation of Contrastive Structures in Geographical
Documents
Antoine Widlöcher, Eric Faurot, Frédérik Bilhaut, GREYC - Université
Caen
Integrating XLink and XPath to Retrieve Structured Multimedia
Documents in Digital Libraries
Zhigang Kong, Mounia Lalmas, Department of Computer Science, Queen
Mary, University of London
Using XML to Query XML - From Theory to Practice
Andrei Broder, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yoelle Maarek, Yosi
Mass, Matan Mandelbrod, IBM Haifa Research Lab
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:40 Session 12: Topic Discovery, Segmentation
Summarizing Texts at Various Levels of Detail
Marie-Francine Moens, Roxana Angheluta , Rik De Busser, Patrick
Jeuniaux, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Selective Combination of Evidence for Topic Distillation using
Document and Aggregate-level Information
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow Fidel Cacheda,
University of A Coruna
Comparing algorithms for French linear segmentation
Laurianne Sitbon, Patrice Bellot, LIA, Université d'Avignon, France
Tagging Well-known Arabic Names to Support Question-Answering Systems
Saleem Abuleil, Chicago State University
Unsupervised Learning with Term Clustering for Thematic Segmentation
of Texts
Marc Caillet, Jean-François Pessiot, Massih-Reza Amini, Patrick
Gallinari, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6
15:40 - 15:50 Break
15:50 - 17:00 Session 13: Improving Retrieval
Combining Positive and Negative Query Feedback in Passage Retrieval
Dkaki Taoufiq, Mothe Josiane, IRIT
Latent Semantic Indexing with a Variable Number of Orthogonal Factors
Georges Dupret
Word Pairs in Language Modeling for Information Retrieval
Carmen Alvarez, Philippe Langlais, Jian-Yun Nie, Université de
Montréal
A Query-based Pre-retrieval Model Selection Approach to Information
Retrieval
Ben He, Iadh Ounis, Department of Computing Science, University of
Glasgow
17:00 - 17:30 Closing session
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