Pittsburgh: Program Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound) RIAO 2007
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Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound)
May 30 to June 1, 2007, Carnegie Mellon University http://www.riao.org
SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE
Recent scientific advances in information retrieval: presentations,
posters, demonstrations of research prototypes as well as selected
cutting-edge innovative products
Chairs: David A Evans (Americas), Sadaoki Furui (Asia), Chantal Soulé-
Dupuy (Europe)
PROGRAM WEDNESDAY MAY 30, 2007
Wed 8:00-9:00 am Registration
Wed 9:00-10:00 am Opening Session
Wed 10:00-10:45 am Invited Speaker Donna Harman-NIST, USA It's time to
move on Wed 11:00-12:15 am Session 1 VIDEO AND LOG RETRIEVAL
Pic-A-Topic: Efficient Viewing of Informative TV Contents on Travel,
Cooking, Food and More
Tetsuya Sakai, Toshiba/NewsWatch-Japan, Tatsuya Uehara, Taishi
Shimomori, Makoto Koyama, Mika Fukui, Toshiba-Japan
Multimodal Segmentation of Lifelog Data
Aiden R Doherty, Alan F Smeaton, CDVP, Dublin City Univ-Ireland,
Keansub Lee, Daniel PW Ellis, LabROSA, Columbia Univ-USA
SportsAnno: What Do You Think?
James Lanagan, Alan F Smeaton, CDVP, Dublin City Univ-Ireland Wed
1:30-3:10 pm Session 2 SOUND AND MUSIC RETRIEVAL
ORCHIVE: Digitizing and Analyzing Orca Vocalizations
George Tzanetakis, Mathieu Lagrange, Univ of Victoria-Canada,
Paul Spong, Helena Symonds, Orcalab-Canada Optimizations of Local
Edition for Evaluating Similarity Between Monophonic Musical Sequences
Pierre Hanna, Pascal Ferraro, LaBRI, Bordeaux 1 Univ-France
Multi-Modal Music Information Retrieval-Visualisation and Evaluation
of Clusterings by Both Audio and Lyrics
Robert Neumayer, Andreas Rauber, Vienna Univ of Technology-
Austria Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Summarization
Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology-Japan Wed 3:10-3:40
pm Break and Demonstrations Wed 3:40-5:40 pm POSTER SESSION 1 Semantic
Domains and Supersense Tagging for Domain-Specific Ontology Learning
Davide Picca, Univ of Lausanne-Switzerland Unified Access to
Heterogeneous Data in Cultural Heritage
Marijn Koolen, Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Univ of Amsterdam-the
Netherlands, Vincent de Keijzer, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague-the
Netherlands, Nir Nussbaum, Univ of Amsterdam-the Netherlands An
approach to Multi-Lingual Text Summarization
Alkesh Patel, Tanveer Siddiqui, Umashankar Tiwary, Indian
Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad-India Cross-Media
Entity Recognition in Nearly Parallel Visual and Textual Documents
Koen Deschacht, Marie-Francine Moens, Wouter Robeyns, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven-Belgium Query Refinement based on Topical Term
Clustering
Hiromi Wakaki, The Univ of Tokyo-Japan, Tomonari Masada,
Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi, National Institute of Informatics, The
Univ of Tokyo-Japan Discriminative Fields for Modeling Semantic
Concepts in Video
Ming-yu Chen, Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon Univ-USA
Multi-modal Interview Concept Detection for Rushes Exploitation
Anan Liu, Tianjin Univ, Chinese Academy of Sciences-China, Li
Jintao, Zhang Yongdong, Tang Sheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences-China,
Yang Zhaoxuan, Tianjin Univ, Chinese Academy of Sciences-China Query
clustering to decide the best system to use
Désiré Kompaoré, IRIT, Toulouse 3 Univ, Josiane Mothe, IRIT,
IUFM, Alain Baccini, Sébastien Dejean, LSP, Toulouse Univ-France An IE
and IR Approach to deal with Geographic Information Scope in Textual
Documents
Christian Sallaberry, LIUPPA, Pau Univ-France, Mustapha Baziz,
IRIT, LIUPPA, Pau Univ-France, Julien
Lesbegueries, Mauro Gaio, LIUPPA, Pau Univ-France Comprehensible
and Accurate Cluster Labels in Text Clustering
Jerzy Stefanowski, Dawid Weiss, Poznan Univ of Technology-Poland
Summarizing non-textual events with 'Briefing' focus
Mohit Kumar, Dipanjan Das, Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon
Univ-USA A Robust Linguistic Platform for Efficient and Domain
specific Web Content Analysis
Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko, Thierry Poibeau, Sophie Aubin,
Julien Derivire, LIPN, Paris 13 Univ-France Effectiveness of Rich
Document Representation in XML Retrieval
Fahimeh Raja, Mostafa Keikha, Maseud Rahgozar, Univ of Teheran-
Iran, Farhad Oroumchian, Univ of Wollongong-Dubai Expanding a Test
Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments
Anna Ritchie, Univ of Cambridge-UK, Stephen Robertson, Microsoft
Research Ltd-UK, Simone Teufel, Univ of Cambridge-UK
XQuery++: a graphical querying language for XML semi-structured data
Ikram Amous, Anis Jedidi, Faiez Gargouri, LARIM, Sfax-Tunisia,
Florence Sèdes, IRIT, Toulouse 3 Univ-France Structured Audio Player:
Supporting Radio Archive Workflows with Automatically Generated
Structure Metadata
Martha Larson, ISLA, Univ of Amsterdam-the Netherlands, Joachim
Köhler, Fraunhofer IAIS-Germany Evaluating A Personal Information
Assistant
Ioannis Psarras, Joemon Jose, Glasgow Univ-UK Wed 05:40-06:30 pm
Session 3 TEXTUAL QUERIES AND SEARCH 1 Selecting Automatically the
Best Query Translations
Pierre-Yves Berger, Jacques Savoy, Univ of Neuchatel-Switzerland
An Information Retrieval Driven by Ontology: from Query to Document
Expansion
Mustapha Baziz, IRIT, LIUPPA Pau Univ-France, Mohand Boughanem,
IRIT, Toulouse 3 Univ-France, Gabriella Pasi, Università degli Studi
di Milano Bicocca-Italy, Henri Prade, IRIT-France THURSDAY MAY 31,
2007 Thu 9:00-9:45 am Invited Speaker Alan Smeaton-Dublin City Univ,
Ireland "Bridging the Molecular-Digital Divide: Instrumented Living
Rooms and Social Media"
Thu 9:45-10:35 am Session 4 TEXTUAL QUERIES AND SEARCH 2 Modeling
Information Scent: A Comparison of LSA, PMI and GLSA Similarity
Measures on Common Tests and Corpora
Raluca Budiu, Christiaan Royer, Peter Pirolli, Palo Alto
Research Center-USA Investigating Retrieval Performance with Manually-
Built Topic Models
Xing Wei, W Bruce Croft, Univ of Massachusetts Amherst-USA Thu
10:35-11:00 am Break and Demonstrations Thu 11:00-12:40 pm Session 5
MODELING LANGUAGE AND SEARCH Document frequency and term specificity
Hideo Joho, Univ of Glasgow-UK, Mark Sanderson, Univ of
Sheffield-UK Context Based Word Prediction for Texting Language
Sachin Agarwal, Shilpa Arora, Carnegie Mellon Univ-USA Combining
linguistic indexes to improve the performances of information
retrieval systems: a machine learning based solution
Fabienne Moreau, Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sébillot, IRISA,
Rennes Univ-France Using Markov Chains to Exploit Word Relationships
in Information Retrieval
Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai, Univ of Montreal-Canada Thu
1:30-3:30 pm APPLICATIONS SESSION Thu 3:30-4:00 pm Break and
Demonstrations Thu 4:00-5:15 pm Session 6 XML IN RETRIEVAL A Survey on
XML Focussed Component Retrieval
Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem, IRIT, Toulouse 3 Univ-
France XML Fragments Extended with Database Operators
Yosi Mass, Dafna Sheinwald, Benjamin Sznajder, Sivan Yogev, IBM
Research Laboratory in Haifa-Israel From Layout to Semantic: a
Reranking Model for Mapping Web Documents to Mediated XML
Representations
Guillaume Wisniewski, Patrick Gallinari, LIP6, Paris 6- France
Thu 5:15-6:05 pm Session 7 IMAGE RETRIEVAL 1 Similarity Beyond
Distance Measurement
Feng Kang, Rong Jin, Michigan State Univ-USA, Steven Hoi, Hong
Kong Chinese Univ-China Image Retrieval Using a Multilingual Ontology
Adrian Popescu, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique-France FRIDAY
JUNE 1, 2007 Fri 9:00-10:40 am Session 8 PEER-TO-PEER AND WEB SEARCH A
Co-operative Web Services Paradigm for Supporting Crawlers
Aravind Chandramouli, Susan Gauch, Univ of Kansas-USA Content-
Based Peer-to-Peer Network Overlay for Full-Text Federated Search
Jie Lu, Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon Univ-USA Homepage Finding
in Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Networks
Enrico Bragante, Massimo Melucci, Univ of Padua-Italy Collective
Annotation: Perspectives for Information Retrieval Improvement
Guillaume Cabanac, IRIT-France, Max Chevalier, IRIT, LGC,
Toulouse 3 Univ-France, Claude Chrisment, Christine Julien, IRIT,
Toulouse 3 Univ-France Fri 10:40-11:10 am Break and Demonstrations Fri
11:10-12:00 am Session 9 IMAGE RETRIEVAL 2 Toward Content-based
Indexing and Retrieval of Functional Brain Images
Bing Bai, Paul Kantor, Nicu Cornea, Deborah Silver, Rutgers Univ-
USA Using the Knowledge of Object Colors to Segment Images and Improve
Web Image Search
Christophe Millet, CEA-LIST-France, Isabelle Bloch, GET-ENST-
France Fri 1:00-2:40 pm Session 10 LINKS, PRIOR INFORMATION IN SEARCH
Relevance Propagation Model for Large Hypertext Documents Collections
Idir Chibane, Bich-Lien Doan, SUPÉLEC-France Combination of
Document Priors in Web Information Retrieval
Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis, Univ of Glasgow-
UK Contextual Search Using Ontology-Based User Profiles
Vishnu Challam, Microsoft Corporation-USA, Susan Gauch, Aravind
Chandramouli, Univ of Kansas-USA Evidence-Based Information Extraction
for High Accuracy Citation and Author Name Identification
Brett Powley, Robert Dale, Macquarie Univ-Australia Fri
2:40-4:00 pm POSTER SESSION 2 Extracting Useful Information from the
Full Text of Fiction
Sharon Givon, Maria Milosavljevic, Univ of Edinburgh-UK Ontology-
Aided vs Keyword-Based Web Searches: A Statistical Comparative
Analysis
Magdi Kamel, Ann Lee, Ed Powers, Naval Postgraduate School,
Monterey-USA Smart Qualitative Data (SQUAD): Information Extraction in
a Large Document Archive
Maria Milosavljevic, Claire Grover, Univ of Edinburgh-UK, Louise
Corti, Univ of Essex-UK Indexing Low Frequency Information for
Answering Complex Questions
Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri, Julien Dubuc, Leila Kosseim, Sabine
Bergler, CLaC laboratory, Concordia Univ-Canada Using Prior
Information Derived from Citations in Literature Search
Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, Univ of Amsterdam-the Netherlands
Information Retrieval Techniques for Templated Queries
Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan, Univ of Massachusetts Amherst-USA
Discovering Missing Values in Semi-Structured Databases
Xing Yi, James Allan, Victor Lavrenko, Univ of Massachusetts
Amherst-USA Audio Feature Engineering for Automatic Music Genre
Classification
Paolo Annesi, Roberto Basili, Raffaele Gitto, Alessandro
Moschitti, Riccardo Petitti, Univ of Rome Tor Vergata-Italy Exploring
Interactive Information Retrieval: An Integrated Approach to Interface
Design and Interaction Analysis
Gheorghe Muresan, Rutgers Univ-USA Construction of Vietnamese
Corpora
Thao Pham Thi Xuan, Faculty of Computer Sciences, Univ of
Information Technology-VNU of HCMC Vietnam-Vietnam, Ai Kawazoe,
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo-Japan, Dien Dinh, Faculty of
Information Technology, Univ of Natural Sciences-VNU of HCMC Vietnam-
Vietnam, Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo-
Japan, Tri Tran Quoc, Faculty of Computer Sciences, Univ of
Information Technology-VNU of HCMC Vietnam-Vietnam Using a Content-and-
Structure Oriented Method for Relevance Feedback in XML Retrieval
Lobna Hlaoua, Mohand Boughanem, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, IRIT,
Toulouse 3 Univ-France Research Methodology in Studies of Information
Retrieval Evaluation
Ben Carterette, James Allan, Univ of Massachusetts Amherst-USA
Fri 4:00-4:30 pm Break and Demonstrations Fri 4:30-5:45 pm Session 11
QUESTION ANSWERING, FACTS, AND SUMMARIES Logical Validation, Answer
Merging and Witness Selection-A Study in Multi-Stream Question
Answering
Ingo Glöckner, Sven Hartrumpf, Johannes Leveling, Univ of Hagen-
Germany Estimating Importance Features for Fact Mining (With a Case
Study in Biography Mining)
Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Maarten de Rijke, Informatics Institute,
Univ of Amsterdam-the Netherlands Capturing Sentence Prior for Query-
Based Multi-Document Summarization
Prasad Pingali, International Institute of Information
Technology-India, Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Microsoft-USA Fri 5:45-6:30
pm Concluding Ceremony
METIOREW - University of Málaga
Cleopatra - National Research Council
MOMINDUM Base- MOMINDUM
Vertical sorting: How to efficiently replace hand-filed documents with
simple stacks of paper - Xamance MIND - Spiking neuron network for
video indexing and image search - SPIKENET Technology The Arrowsmith
Suite of Tools to enhance Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration -
University of Illinois Region based image analysis toolkit -
University of Essex Histara - Reviews - Ecole Pratique des Hautes
Etudes / University of Bern
ACADI: Automatic Character (in Audiovisual Document) Indexing -
University of Toulouse ADVESTIGATE - Advestigo The SPLINE Platform for
e-learning - Indian Institute of Management Bangalore EasyLayer - A
Multi-Layered Citrix installation for heterogeneous user groups -
University West
6S: P2P Web index collecting and sharing application - University of
Indiana METIORE-WISP version prototype - LORIA Extracting semantic
content from webpages - TheFind Inc.
Automatic Online Advertisement Targeting using Advanced Machine
Learning Techniques - Turn Inc.
Decider.track, the first "Man-Machine Co-Decider" - Co-Decision
Technology SAS The Endeca Information Access Platform - Endeca
NpPicture - NewPhenix Xfy - JustSystems Corporation
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RIAO 2007 conference is held in cooperation with ACM-SIGIR