8. RIAO 2007: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Invited speaker

• Donna Harman: It's Time to Move On.

Session 1: Video and Log Retrieval

• Tetsuya Sakai, Tatsuya Uehara, Taishi Shimomori, Makoto Koyama, Mika Fukui: Pic-A-Topic: Efficient Viewing of Informative TV Contents on Travel, Cooking, Food and More.
• Aiden R. Doherty, Alan F. Smeaton, Keansub Lee, Daniel P. W. Ellis: Multimodal Segmentation of Lifelog Data.
• James Lanagan, Alan F. Smeaton: SportsAnno: What Do You Think?

Session 2: Sound and Music Retrieval

• George Tzanetakis, Mathieu Lagrange, Paul Spong, Helena Symonds: ORCHIVE: Digitizing and Analyzing Orca Vocalizations.
• Pierre Hanna, Pascal Ferraro: Optimizations of Local Edition for Evaluating Similarity Between Monophonic Musical Sequences.
• Robert Neumayer, Andreas Rauber: Multi-Modal Music Information Retrieval - Visualisation and Evaluation of Clusterings by Both Audio and Lyrics.
• Sadaoki Furui: Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Summarization.

Poster Session 1

• Davide Picca: Semantic Domains and Supersense Tagging for Domain-Specific Ontology Learning.
• Marijn Koolen, Avi T. Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Vincent de Keijzer, Nir Nussbaum: Unified Access to Heterogeneous Data in Cultural Heritage.
• Alkesh Patel, Tanveer J. Siddiqui, Umashankar Tiwary: An approach to Multi-Lingual Text Summarization.
• Koen Deschacht, Marie-Francine Moens, Wouter Robeyns: Cross-Media Entity Recognition in Nearly Parallel Visual and Textual Documents.
• Hiromi Wakaki, Tomonari Masada, Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi: Query Refinement based on Topical Term Clustering.
• Ming-yu Chen, Alexander G. Hauptmann: Discriminative Fields for Modeling Semantic Concepts in Video.
• Anan Liu, Jintao Li, Yongdong Zhang, Sheng Tang, Zhaoxuan Yang: Multi-modal Interview Concept Detection for Rushes Exploitation.
• Désiré Kompaoré, Josiane Mothe, Alain Baccini, Sébastien Dejean: Query clustering to decide the best system to use.
• Christian Sallaberry, Mustapha Baziz, Julien Lesbegueries, Mauro Gaio: An IE and IR Approach to deal with Geographic Information Scope in Textual Documents.
• Jerzy Stefanowski, Dawid Weiss: Comprehensible and Accurate Cluster Labels in Text Clustering.
• Mohit Kumar, Dipanjan Das, Alexander I. Rudnicky: Summarizing non-textual events with 'Briefing' focus.
• Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko, Thierry Poibeau, Sophie Aubin, Julien Derivière: A Robust Linguistic Platform for Efficient and Domain specific Web Content Analysis.
• Fahimeh Raja, Mostafa Keikha, Maseud Rahgozar, Farhad Oroumchian: Effectiveness of Rich Document Representation in XML Retrieval.
• Anna Ritchie, Stephen Robertson, Simone Teufel: Expanding a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments.
• Ikram Amous, Anis Jedidi, Faïez Gargouri, Florence Sedes: XQuery++: a graphical querying language for XML semi-structured data.
• Martha Larson, Joachim Köhler: Structured Audio Player: Supporting Radio Archive Workflows with Automatically Generated Structure Metadata.
• Ioannis Psarras, Joemon M. Jose: Evaluating A Personal Information Assistant.

Invited speaker

• Alan F. Smeaton: Bridging the Molecular-Digital Divide: Instrumented Living Rooms and Social Media.

Session 3: Textual Queries and Search 1

• Pierre-Yves Berger, Jacques Savoy: Selecting Automatically the Best Query Translations.
• Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Gabriella Pasi, Henri Prade: An Information Retrieval Driven by Ontology: from Query to Document Expansion.

Session 4: Textual Queries and Search 2

• Raluca Budiu, Christiaan Royer, Peter Pirolli: Modeling Information Scent: A Comparison of LSA, PMI and GLSA Similarity Measures on Common Tests and Corpora.
• Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft: Investigating Retrieval Performance with Manually-Built Topic Models.

Session 5: Modeling Language and Search

• Hideo Joho, Mark Sanderson: Document frequency and term specificity.
• Sachin Agarwal, Shilpa Arora: Context Based Word Prediction for Texting Language.
• Fabienne Moreau, Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sébillot: Combining linguistic indexes to improve the performances of information retrieval systems: a machine learning based solution.
• Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai: Using Markov Chains to Exploit Word Relationships in Information Retrieval.

Session 6: XML in Retrieval

• Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem: A Survey on XML Focussed Component Retrieval.
• Yosi Mass, Dafna Sheinwald, Benjamin Sznajder, Sivan Yogev: XML Fragments Extended with Database Operators.
• Guillaume Wisniewski, Patrick Gallinari: From Layout to Semantic: a Reranking Model for Mapping Web Documents to Mediated XML Representations.

Session 7: Image Retrieval 1

• Feng Kang, Rong Jin, Steven C. H. Hoi: Similarity Beyond Distance Measurement.
• Adrian Popescu: Image Retrieval Using a Multilingual Ontology.

Session 8: Peer-to-Peer and Web Search

• Aravind Chandramouli, Susan Gauch: A Co-operative Web Services Paradigm for Supporting Crawlers.
• Jie Lu, Jamie Callan: Content-Based Peer-to-Peer Network Overlay for Full-Text Federated Search.
• Enrico Bragante, Massimo Melucci: Homepage Finding in Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Networks.
• Guillaume Cabanac, Max Chevalier, Claude Chrisment, Christine Julien: Collective Annotation: Perspectives for Information Retrieval Improvement.

Session 9: Image Retrieval 2

• Bing Bai, Paul B. Kantor, Nicu D. Cornea, Deborah Silver: Toward Content-based Indexing and Retrieval of Functional Brain Images.
• Christophe Millet, Isabelle Bloch: Using the Knowledge of Object Colors to Segment Images and Improve Web Image Search.

Session 10: Links, Prior Information in Search

• Idir Chibane, Bich-Liên Doan: Relevance Propagation Model for Large Hypertext Documents Collections.
• Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis: Combination of Document Priors in Web Information Retrieval.
• Vishnu Challam, Susan Gauch, Aravind Chandramouli: Contextual Search Using Ontology-Based User Profiles.
• Brett Powley, Robert Dale: Evidence-Based Information Extraction for High Accuracy Citation and Author Name Identification.

Poster Session 2

• Sharon Givon, Maria Milosavljevic: Extracting Useful Information from the Full Text of Fiction.
• Magdi N. Kamel, Ann Y. Lee, Edward C. Powers: Ontology-Aided vs. Keyword-Based Web Searches: A Statistical Comparative Analysis.
• Maria Milosavljevic, Claire Grover, Louise Corti: Smart Qualitative Data (SQUAD): Information Extraction in a Large Document Archive.
• Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri, Julien Dubuc, Leila Kosseim, Sabine Bergler: Indexing Low Frequency Information for Answering Complex Questions.
• Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke: Using Prior Information Derived from Citations in Literature Search.
• Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan: Information Retrieval Techniques for Templated Queries.
• Xing Yi, James Allan, Victor Lavrenko: Discovering Missing Values in Semi-Structured Databases.
• Paolo Annesi, Roberto Basili, Raffaele Gitto, Alessandro Moschitti, Riccardo Petitti: Audio Feature Engineering for Automatic Music Genre Classification.
• Gheorghe Muresan: Exploring Interactive Information Retrieval: An Integrated Approach to Interface Design and Interaction Analysis.
• Thao Pham Thi Xuan, Ai Kawazoe, Dien Dinh, Nigel Collier, Tran Quoc Tri: Construction of a Vietnamese Corpora for Named Entity Recognition.
• Lobna Hlaoua, Mohand Boughanem, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat: Using a Content-and-Structure Oriented Method for Relevance Feedback in XML Retrieval.
• Ben Carterette, James Allan: Research Methodology in Studies of Information Retrieval Evaluation.

Session 11: Question Answering, Facts, and Summaries

• Ingo Glöckner, Sven Hartrumpf, Johannes Leveling: Logical Validation, Answer Merging and Witness Selection - A Study in Multi-Stream Question Answering.
• Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Maarten de Rijke: Estimating Importance Features for Fact Mining (With a Case Study in Biography Mining).
• Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma: Capturing Sentence Prior for Query-Based Multi-Document Summarization.