Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 457.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:04:20 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Conferences: Multimedia Information Retrival; Web search
results
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
March 1, 2000
RIAO 2000
Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur
Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval
6th Conference on "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access"
April 12-14, 2000: College de France, Paris, France
<http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO>http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO
Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link
May 30th 2000: San Antonio, Texas
<http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/>http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat
/info_doors/
A workshop held in conjunction with the
ACM Hypertext conference (www.ht00.org/)
Two interestingly related conferences, just announced on the Digital
Library list, are coming up in Paris and San Antonio. One focuses on
multimedia information retrieval, the other on how Web search results, as a
form of hypertext, can be optimized.
David Green
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>>list <DIGLIB@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA>
>From: Terry Kuny <terry.kuny@xist.com>
>> (2000.04.12-14: Paris, France)
>To: DIGLIB@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA
RIAO 2000
6th Conference on
"Content-Based Multimedia Information Access"
College de France
Paris, France
April 12-14, 2000
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)
Under the sponsorship of :
the European Commission,
the French Ministry of Education, Research and Technology,
the DGA, the CEA, ELRA and ELSNET
With the collaboration of:
AII, ASIS, ESCA and AUF/Francil
For the detailed Advance Program, please visit our Web site:
<http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO>http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO
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.
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, France (1985), M.I.T.,
Cambridge, Mass. USA (1988), Barcelona, Spain (1991), Rockefeller
University, New York, N.Y., USA (1994) and McGill University, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada (1997).
The Conference Advance Program is highlighted by contributions of authors from
26 countries. The program includes 2 invited speakers, 3 panel sessions, 3
plenary sessions, 8 poster sessions and 16 oral sessions. Among all
sessions are 146 papers (73 oral and 73 poster presentations), providing a
unique opportunity to present and discuss in depth the state-of-the-art in
this rapidly growing scientific and technological field.
There will also be many innovative application demonstrations presented by
companies from different countries. The application committee has already
selected 19 of them covering various applications such as crosslingual
English-Arabic Internet search, recognition of printed and handwritten
texts, television archives retrieval, sign language indexing, machine
translation,
etc.
The RIAO 2000 Conference Advance Program includes sessions on the following
topics:
*Plenary sessions:
- Content-Based Information Access: from Text to Speech, Image and
Multimodality
- The Web and the Electronic Book
- Radio & TV Broadcast Retrieval
* Oral and Poster sessions:
Document Processing:
- Navigation, User Adaptation & Document Creation
- Combining Image & Language Information Retrieval:
- Internet & Cross-Language Information Retrieval
- Information Retrieval Systems & Techniques
- Interactive & Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Information Retrieval Methods
- Classification & Clustering
- Filtering, NLP & Text Retrieval
- Information Visualization Spoken Language and Audio Processing:
- Speech and Information Retrieval
- Speech & Multimedia Processing Techniques
- Musical Information Processing
Natural Language Processing:
- Multilingual Document Handling & Machine Translation
- Terminology
- NLP Techniques for Document Processing
- NLP Methods
Image processing:
- Scanned Document Analysis
- Image & Video Processing Techniques
- Image Indexing, Browsing & Retrieval
- Video Indexing, Browsing & Retrieval
- System Architecture, Usage and Applications
- Evaluation and Best Practice
* Panel sessions:
- Multilingual Information Access
- Information Retrieval Evaluation Worldwide
- Usage of Information Retrieval Systems
For more information on the program, conference location and registration,
please visit our Web site:
<http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO>http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO
or contact us at:
- For all scientific and technical matters: riao2000@limsi.fr
- For all organizational and practical matters: cidcol@club-internet.fr
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:01:21 -0500
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From: Terry Kuny <terry.kuny@xist.com>
Subject: [CFP] Information Doors - Where Information Search and Hypertext
Link
To: DIGLIB@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA
Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link
May 30th 2000 San Antonio, Texas, USA
<http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/>http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat
/info_doors/
A workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Hypertext conference
(www.ht00.org/)
Introduction
The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new
hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the
context
of search results.
Online search results are, no doubt, a form of hypertext created on-the-fly.
Search results pages are also probably the most frequently seen hypertext form
of writing nowadays. However, the research community tends to identify the
presentation search results with Information Retrieval research. This workshop
will consider search results as a form of hypertext, encouraging discussion
about the nature of this dynamically created textual point-of-departure.
The task of reading from a screen is not a trivial one, nor is the task of
navigating between online texts. Even less trivial is creating a new text to
represent other texts that are interconnected. In the case of hypertext
representation of search results these tasks are combined to create a new
on-screen text that describes and links other texts or entities. The
purpose of
this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new hypertexts on-the-fly
for representing other hypertext documents in the context of search results.
The workshop will focus on the textual aspects of the problem:
- How texts are read online?
- How previously unseen documents might be presented in text to people
who search for information?
- How people navigate through textual search results?
- What are the informative role and value of the newly created
intermediate page?
- Does it influence the reading of the documents followed by users?
- Does it change the focus and the meaning of the texts as they are
perceived by readers?
- Are there any emerging textual or language conventions of presentation
within hypertext systems and among hypertext authors that can be used
in order to facilitate navigation through search results (e.g. naming
of links conventions on the web, similarities in annotation patterns
in annotation systems, use of titles and paragraph arrangements and
positioning, use of lists and preferred methods of list ordering, and
authors' frequent vocabulary choices).
The workshop aims to bring together participants from many disciplines such as
Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language
Processing (NLP), Digital Library (DL), applied psychology and
psycho-linguistics, to discuss the nature of one of the most frequently seen
hypertext presentation in recent years -- online search results.
It will address the problem of textual presentation and hypertext
representations of search results by looking at evaluations and studies of
hypertext representations, studies about interaction with texts, how text
representations should be designed in terms of language coherence and
on-screen/online reading limitations, how to improve navigation with a
smarter choice of textual representation, etc. The term 'textual
representation' relates to how a document or a group-of-documents is
represented in text (short or long texts, coherently summarised or
organised by fixed fields like author, title, last updated, citations,
generating descriptions, extracting passages, and so on).
We will aim for gathering our knowledge to enhance and integrate our
experience about hypertext in order to improve the options users are
presented with while searching for information. The goal of the workshop is
to create an
interdisciplinary community that is able to address issues concerning search
results presentation in the context of an online hypertext system.
The workshop will specifically focus on the textual representation of results.
It will not look at graphical representations of search results unless these
shed new light on a textual issue, such as a comparison between textual and
graphical representations of documents. The following list of suggested topics
is only a short one and authors are encouraged to add more related issues and
directions of investigations that are missing from it.
Topics
Issues of presentation
- Choosing what information to show about found entities (summaries,
titles, links, annotations, additional related information, etc.)
- Grouping of results
- Labelling Groups of documents
- Creating hierarchies of results
- Comparisons between textual & graphical representations of results
Issues of results refinement
- Similarities detected between results (represented in text)
- Query refinement (textual options)
Issues of evaluation
- How results are read
- Does presentation change users navigation experience
- Different users - different presentations?
- Large scale studies
- Task-specific studies
Issues of speed and efficiency
Commercial applications
Important Dates
Submission of papers - 5 April 2000
Notification of acceptance - 30 April 2000
Workshop - 30 May 2000
Submission
Papers are due on the 5th of April 2000. All papers should be submitted
electronically via email (sent to einat@ics.mq.edu.au). PDF submissions are
preferred (if this is not possible then try to send it as a .txt, .ps or
MSWord file). Papers should be no longer than 6 pages.
Workshop Organiser:
Einat Amitay (Macquarie University & CSIRO)
einat@ics.mq.edu.au
Committee:
Chaomei Chen (IS & Computing, Brunel University)
Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft)
Andrew Dillon (SLIS, Indiana University)
Sue Dumais (Microsoft)
Raya Fidel (SLIS, University of Washington)
Gene Golovchinsky (FXPAL)
Stephen Green (Sun Microsystems)
Christina Haas (English, Kent State University)
Johndan Johnson-Eilola (English, Purdue University)
Chris Manning (CS & Linguistics, Stanford University)
Vibhu Mittal (Just Research)
Einat Amitay
einat@ics.mq.edu.au
<http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat>http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat
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Announcing the first issue of Sun's Campus Advisor newsletter.
Formerly known as the Administrative Advisor, the newsletter has
been re-named to reflect broader coverage of the entire spectrum
of Higher Education computing, including HPC, collaborative
research, bioinformatics,libraries, web-based learning, and more.
Check it out at
<http://www.sun.com/edu/admin/Winter00.pdf>http://www.sun.com/edu/admin/Wint
er00.pdf
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