--- Forwarded Message from Jeff ALLEN <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 10:52:12 +0200 >To: (various lang tech lists & people) <[log in to unmask]> >From: Jeff ALLEN <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: conf: RIAO 2000 >Cc: (Nicolas Masson) <[log in to unmask]>, (Joseph Mariani) <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ The first submission deadline for the conference indicated below is in early November. Please see the website or send e-mail to the contact address for RIAO2000 (both indicated in the announcement) for more information. Best, Jeff Allen ------------------------------------------ ****We apologize if you receive multiple copies**** ****PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY**** CALL FOR PAPERS & APPLICATION DEMONSTRATIONS RIAO 2000 Content-Based Multimedia Information Access College de France Paris, France April 12-14, 2000 Web site: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO 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: (please see RIAO2000 website for the complete list of subtopics) * Document processing * Information Retrieval * Spoken Language Processing: * Natural Language Processing * Image processing * System architecture * Usage and best practice * Applications 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. CALENDAR: * 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 CONTACTS: Email: [log in to unmask] See the RIAO 2000 Web site below for all information relevant to submission procedures, the conference, members of the various conference committees, etc. http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html