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Announcement - RIAO 88: User-Oriented Content-Based Text and Image Handling
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 88 17:14:13 est
From: Don Walker <walker@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM>
Subject: User-Oriented Content-Based Text and Image Handling Conference
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RIAO 88
CONFERENCE
with presentation of prototypes and operational demonstrations
USER-ORIENTED CONTENT-BASED TEXT AND IMAGE HANDLING
Massachusets Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA.
March 21-24 1988
organized by
CENTRE DE HAUTES INTERNATIONALES d'INFORMATIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE
with the assistance of
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (C.N.R.S.)
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATISME (INRIA)
ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES MINES DE PARIS
CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CNET)
US Participating Organizations
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETIES (AFIPS)
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE (ASIS)
INFORMATION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (IIA)
under the direction of Professor Lichnerowicz
de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris
Conference Chair
Pierre Aigrain
SPECIFIC THEMES
A) Linguistic processing and interrogation of full
text databases:
- automatic indexing,
- natural language queries,
- computer-aided translation,
- multilingual interfaces.
B) Automatic thesaurus construction,
C) Expert system techniques for retrieving information
in full-text and multimedia databases:
- expert systems reasoning on open-ended domains
- expert systems simulating librarians accessing
pertinent information.
D) Friendly user interfaces to classical information
retrieval systems.
E) Specialized machines and system architectures designed
for treating full-text data, including managing and accessing
widely distributed databases.
F) Automatic database construction scanning techniques,
optical character readers, output document preparation, etc...
G) New applications and perspectives suggested by
emerging new technologies:
- optical storage techniques (videodisk,
CD-ROM, CD-I, Digital Optical Disks);
- integrated text, sound and image retrieval
systems;
- electronic mail and document delivery based
on content;
- voice processing technologies for database
construction;
- production of intelligent tutoring
systems;
- hypertext, hypermedia.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE
GENERAL SESSION
MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1988
9:00 - 9:15 WELCOME STATEMENT
Pierre Aigrain
President of CID and Conference Chair of RIAO88
9:15 - 9:30 AIMS AND GOALS for RIAO88
Donald Walker
US Co-Chair, RIAO88 Program Committee
9:30 - 9:50 INVITED SPEAKER
Goery Delacotte
Directeur de l'Information Scientifique et Technique aux CNRS
9:50 - 10:30 INVITED SPEAKER
Karen Sparck Jones
Cambridge University ( United Kingdom )
SESSION 1: HYPERMEDIA (Room 10-250)
Chair: Edward A. Fox
10:30 - 10:50 Hypermedia Design.
Brian R. Gaines, Joan N. Vickers
University of Calgary ( Canada )
10:50 - 11:10 CLORIS: A Prototype Video-Based Intelligent Compu-
ter-Assisted Instruction System.
Alan P. Parkes
University of Lancaster ( United Kingdom )
11:10 - 11:30 A Multimedia Information Based and Career Guidance
of Secondary School pupils.
Jean Paul Anton, Francoise Dagorret, Francoise Larrieux
Universite Paul Sabatier ( France )
11:30 - 11:50 Multimedia Information Management and Optical Disk
Technologies as a Basis for Advanced Information Retrieval.
Ray Cordes, R. Buck-Emden, H. Langendorfer
Technische Universitat Braunschweig ( Federal Republic of Germany )
12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH
PARALLEL SESSIONS
SESSION 2: HYPERTEXT (Room 10-250)
Chair: Roland Hjerppe
1:30 - 1:50 Effective Browsing in Hypertext Systems.
Carolyn L. Foss
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (France )
1:50 - 2:10 Introducing Hypertext in Primary Health Care: Sup-
porting the Doctor-Patient Relationship.
Toomas Timpka, Roland Hjerppe, John Zimmer, Marie Ekstrom
University of Linkoping ( Sweden )
2:10 - 2:30 A New Multimedia Electronic Book and its Functional
Capabilities.
Yoshinori Hara, Asao Kaneko
NEC Corporation ( Japan )
2:30 - 2:50 Documentation Management for Large Systems of Equi-
pment.
Peter L. Van Sickel, Kenneth F. Sierzega, Catherine A. Herring,
Jonathan J. Frund
ALCOA Technical Center ( United States )
SESSION 3: IR INTERROGATION IMPROVEMENTS (Room 4-270)
Chair: Christoph Schwarz
1:30 - 1:50 National Language-Specific Evaluation Sites for Re-
trieval Systems and Interfaces.
Paul B. Kantor
OCLC Inc. ( United States )
1:50 - 2:10 A Technique to Improve the Precision of Full-Text
Database Search.
Gregory S. Hoppenstand, David K. Hsiao
Naval Postgraduate School ( United States )
2:10 - 2:30 Intelligent Search of Full-Text Databases.
Susan Gauch, John B. Smith
University of North Carolina ( United States )
2:30 - 2:50 Towards a Friendly Adaptable Information Retrieval
System
Shih-Chio Chang, Anita Chow
GTE Laboratories Inc. ( United States )
2:50 - 3:10 Structure of Information in Full-Text Abstracts.
Elizabeth D. Liddy
Syracuse University ( United States )
3:10 - 4:00 BREAK AND PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS
SESSION 4: OPTICAL STORAGE (Room 10-250)
Chair: Xavier Dalloz
4:00 - 4:20 Inverted Signature Trees: An Efficient Text Sear-
ching Technique for Use with CD-ROMs.
Alan L. Tharp, Lorraine K. D. Cooper
North Carolina State University ( United States )
4:20 - 4:40 Integration of Write Once Optical Disk with Multi-
media DBMS.
B. C. Ooi, A. D. Narasimhalu, I. F. Chang
National University of Singapore ( Singapore )
4:40 - 5:00 FLAME - An Efficient Access Method for Optical
Disks.
Uri Shani, Michael Rodeh, Alan J. Wecker, Ike Sagie
IBM Israel Scientific Center ( Israel )
5:00 - 5:20 An Object-Oriented Approach to Interactive Access to
Multimedia Databases on CD-ROM.
Daniel A. Menasce, Roberto Ierusalimschy
Pontifica Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil )
SESSION 5: NOVELTIES (Room 4-270)
Chair: Patrick Mordini
4:00 - 4:20 Transmedia Machine and its Keyword Search over Image
Texts.
Y. Tanaka, H. Torii
Hokkaido University ( Japan )
4:20 - 4:40 STARGUIDE: A Generator for Self Training.
Gerard Claes, O. Ounis, Z. Razoarivelo, P. Salembier, M.S.
Sridharan
BULL MTS ( France )
4:40 - 5:00 Voice Recognition in Database Building : A Model
Workstation.
R. David Nelson
Chemical Abstracts Service ( United States )
5:00 - 5:20 French Yellow Pages, Access to the nomenclature in
natural language
Bernard Normier
ERLI ( France )
5:20 - 6:30 PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS
GENERAL SESSION
TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1988
SESSION 6: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - Part 1
(Room 10-250)
Chair: Donald Walker
8:30 - 8:50 Using English for Indexing and Retrieval
Boris Katz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( United States )
8:50 - 9:10 Inflections and Compounds: Linguistic Problems for
Automatic Indexing.
Harri Jappinen, J. Niemisto
SITRA Foundation ( Finland )
9:10 - 9:30 About Reformulation in Full-Text IRS
Fathi Debili, Pierre Radasoa, Christian Fluhr
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique ( France )
9:30 - 9:50 The TINA Project: Text Content Analysis at the
Central Research Laboratories at SIEMENS.
Christoph Schwarz
Siemens ( Federal Republic of Germany )
9:50 - 10:10 TEX-NAT: A Tool for Indexing and Information Re-
trieval.
J. M. Lancel, N. Simonin
Cap Sogeti Innovation ( France )
10:10 - 11:10 BREAK AND PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS
SESSION 7: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - Part 2
Chair: R. Marcus
11:10 - 11:30 Who Knows: A System Based on Automatic Representa-
tion of Semantic Structure.
Lynn A. Streeter, Karen E. Lochbaum
Bell Communications Research ( United States )
11:30 - 11:50 Information Aids for Technological Decision-Making:
New Data Processing and Interrogation for Full-Text Patent
Databases.
William A. Turner
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( France )
11:50 - 12:10 AMI: An Intelligent Message Routing System.
C. Vansteelandt
CIMSA-SINTRA ( France )
12:10 - 12:30 Conceptual Information Extraction and Retrieval from
Natural Language Input.
Lisa F. Rau
GE Company ( United States )
12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH
PARALLEL SESSIONS
SESSION 8: USER INTERFACES - Part 1 (Room 10-250)
Chair: Agnes Beriot
2:00 - 2:20 Self-Structured Data Banks Semantic Integrity and
Query Assistance Interface.
Patrick Mordini, Mostafa Jarmouni Idrissi, Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris ( France )
2:20 - 2:40 The Electronic Directory Service.
Jean-Claude Marcovici
Direction Generale des Telecommunications ( France )
2:40 - 3:00 A Desktop Tool for Computer-Assisted Research in the
Humanities.
Christophe Schnell
Saint Gall Graduate School of Econ., Law, Business and Pub. Admin.
( Switzerland )
SESSION 9: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (Room 4-270)
Chair: Ezra Black
2:00 - 2:20 CONTEXT: Natural Language Full-Text Retrieval System.
Zeev Menkes
Contahal Ltd. ( Israel )
2:20 - 2:40 Natural Language Data Bases on Small Computers.
Hans Paymans
Katholic University Brabant ( Netherlands )
2:40 - 3:00 An Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques
to Automated Key-Wording.
James R. Driscoll
University of Central Florida ( United States )
3:00 - 4:00 BREAK AND PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS
SESSION 10: USER INTERFACES - Part 2 (Room 10-250)
Chair: Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets
4:00 - 4:20 User Interfaces to Scientific Databases.
Mary G. Reph, Blanche W. Meeson, Lola M. Olsen
Goddard Space Flight Center ( United States )
4:20 - 4:40 Image and Text Information Retrieval Systems in the
Registro de la Propiedad Industrial (Spain).
Luis Roberto Martinez Diez
Registro de la Propiedad Industrial ( Spain )
4:40 - 5:00 Hypermedia-Based Documentation System for the Office
Environment.
Fumiyasu Hirano
NEC Corporation ( Japan )
5:00 - 5:20 MenUSE for Medicine: End-User Browsing and Searching
of MEDLINE via The MeSH Thesaurus.
Arthur S. Pollitt
National Library of Medicine ( United States )
5:20 - 5:40 Conceptual Methods for Text Retrieval.
Jon Bing
University of Oslo ( Norway )
SESSION 11: AUTOMATIC THESAURUS CONSTRUCTION (Room 4-270)
Chair: Christian Fluhr
4:00 - 4:20 Automatic Thesaurus Construction by Machine
Learning from Retrieval Sessions.
Ulrich Guntzer, G. Juttner, G. Seegmuller, F. Sarre
Technical University of Munich ( Federal Republic of Germany )
4:20 - 4:40 Automatic Construction of a Phrasal Thesaurus for an
Information Retrieval System from a Machine Readable Dictionary.
Martha Evens, T. Ahlswede, J. Anderson, J. Neises, S. Pin-
Ngern, J. Markowitz
Illinois Institute of Technology ( United States )
4:40 - 5:00 Looking for Needles in a Haystark or Locating Inte-
resting Collocational Expressions in Large Textual Databases.
Yaacov Choueka
Bar-Ilan Univ. ( Israel )
5:00 - 5:20 Browsing and Authoring Tools for a Unified Medical
Language System.
Henryk Jan Komorowski, Robert A. Greenes, Charles Barr,
Edward Pattison-Gordon
Harvard Medical School ( United States )
5:20 - 5:40 The Informatics Calculus: A Graphical Functional
Query Language for Information Resources.
Gary Epstein
West Chester University ( United States )
5:40 - 6:30 PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS
GENERAL SESSION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1988
SESSION 12: IR AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
(Room 10-250)
Chair: Yaacov Choueka
8:30 - 8:50 Factors Affecting Interface Design for Full-Text
Retrieval.
Martha J. Gordon, Martin Dillon
OCLC, Inc. ( United States )
8:50 - 9:10 Semantics of User Interface for Image Retrieval:
Possibility Theory and Learning Techniques Applied on Two Proto-
types.
Gilles Halin, N. Mouaddib, O. Foucaut, M. Crehange
Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique ( France )
9:10 - 9:30 A Logic Programming Approach to Full-Text Database
Manipulation.
R. Marshall
Loyola College ( United States )
9:30 - 9:50 Implementing a Distributed Expert-Based Information
Retrieval System.
Edward A. Fox, Marybeth T. Weaver, Qi-Fan Chen, Robert K. France
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ( United
States )
9:50 - 10:50 BREAK AND PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS
SESSION 13: DATA BASES FOR GRAPHICS & ANIMATION
(Room 10-250)
Chair: Ching-Chih Chen
10:50 - 11:10 A Picture Display Language for a Multimedia Database
Environment.
Gregory Y. Tang
National Taiwan University ( Taiwan, Republic of China )
11:10 - 11:30 From Concepts to Film Sequences.
Gilles R. Bloch
Yale University ( United States )
11:30 - 11:50 RAVI: Representation for Audiovisual Interactive
Applications.
Joseph Fromont, Francis Kretz, Pierre Louazel, Maryse Quere,
Christine Schwartz
Centre Commun d'Etudes de Telediffusion et Telecommunications (
France )
11:50 - 1:30 LUNCH
SESSION 14: AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION (Room 10-250)
Chair: Gregory Grefenstette
1:30 - 1:50 Universal Multilingual Information Interchange Sys-
tems.
Suban Krishnamoorthy, Ching Y. Suen
Framingham State College ( United States )
1:50 - 2:10 A Statistical Approach to French/English Transla-
tion.
P. Brown, J. Cocke, S. and V. Della Pietra, F. Jelinek, R.
Mercer, P. Roossin
IBM Research Division ( United States )
2:10 - 2:30 METEO: An Operational Translation System.
John Chandioux
John Chandioux Consultants Inc. ( Canada )
2:30 - 3:30 BREAK AND DEMONSTRATIONS
SESSION 15: KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS
(Room 10-250)
Chair: Jean-Claude Bassano
3:30 - 3:50 IRX: An Information Retrieval System for Experimen-
tation and User Applications.
Donna Harman, Dennis Benson, Larry Fitzpatrick, Rand Huntzinger,
Charles Goldstein
National Library of Medicine ( United States )
3:50 - 4:10 GENNY: A Knowledge Based Text Generation System.
Mark T. Maybury
Cambridge University ( United Kingdom )
4:10 - 4:30 DOD Gateway Information System (DGIS) Common Command
Language; The Decision for Artificial Intelligence.
Allan D. Kuhn
Defense Technical Information Center ( United States )
4:30 - 4:50 Interactive Knowledge-Based Indexing: The MedIndEx
System.
Susanne M. Humphrey
National Library of Medicine ( United States )
4:50 - 5:10 Conceptual Information Retrieval from Full-Text.
Richard M. Tong, Lee A. Appelbaum
Advanced Decision Systems ( United States )
THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1988
SESSION 16: DATABASE CONSTRUCTION (Room 10-250)
Chair: Ernesto Garcia Camarero
8:30 - 8:50 Automatic Recognition of Sentence Dependency
Structures.
Timothy Craven
The University of Western Ontario ( Canada )
8:50 - 9:10 Parsing Textual Structures from a Typewritten Au-
thor's Work.
Said Tazi
Universite des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse ( France )
9:10 - 9:30 Document Description and Analysis by Cuts.
Andreas Dengel, Gerhard Barth
University of Stuttgart ( Federal Republic of Germany )
9:30 - 9:50 Information Retrieval System Manipulation and a
Posteriori Structuring.
Florence Sedes
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique ( France )
9:50 - 10:50 BREAK AND PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATION
SESSION 17: DOCUMENT AND IMAGE ANALYSIS
Chair: Jean Rohmer
10:50 - 11:10 Adding Analysis Tools to Image Data Bases: Facili-
tating Research in Geography & Art History.
Howard Besser
University of California Berkeley ( United States )
11:10 - 11:30 Query Processing for Information Extraction from
Image of Paper-Based Maps.
Mukesh Amlane, Rangachar Kasturi
Pennsylvania State University ( United States )
11:30 - 11:50 A Segmentation Method of Color Document Images for
Multimedia Content Retrieval Systems.
Yoshihiro Shima, T. Murakami, J. Higashino, Y. Nakano, H. Fujisawa
Hitachi Ltd. ( Japan )
11:50 - 1:30 LUNCH
SESSION 18: HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR IR
(Room 10-250)
Chair: Pierre Asancheyev
1:30 - 1:50 The Utah Retrieval System Architecture: A Distri-
buted Information Retrieval System Using Workstations, Windows
and Specialized Backend Processors.
Lee A. Hollaar
University of Utah ( United States )
1:50 - 2:10 Adaptive Information Retrieval Using a Fine-Grained
Parallel Computer.
Robert N. Oddy, B. Balakrishnan
Syracuse University ( United States )
2:10 - 2:30 Browsing Image Databases Via Data Analysis and
Neural Networks.
Alain Lelu
Direction Generale des Telecommunications ( France )
2:30 - 2:50 Multilingual Information Retrieval Mechanism Using
VLSI. Requirements and Approaches for Information Retrieval Sys-
tem in the Computer-Aided Software Engineering and Document Pro-
cessing Environment.
Hiroaki Kitano
NEC Corporation ( Japan )
2:50 - 3:10 An Intelligent Backend System for Text Processing
Applications.
Hans Diel, H. Schukat
IBM Laboratory Boeblingen ( Federal Republic of Germany )
3:10 - 3:30 Integrated Image Management on a Local Area Network.
M. Fantini, F. Prampolini, A. Turtur
IBM Italy ( Italy )
3:30 - 3:50 A Fast Machine for Prototyping String Correction
Algorithms.
Patrice Frison, Dominique Lavenier
Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires
( France )
3:50 - 4:00 BREAK
4:00 CONCLUSIONS
J. Arsac, A. Bookstein, R. Marcus
FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1988
10:00 - 12:00 Visit to the MIT Media Laboratory.
DEMONSTRATIONS
PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS
In conjunction with the presentation of papers at the conference,
prototypes will be demonstrated in an exhibit hall near the
conference room (lobby of bldg. 13). These demonstrations will
take place on a rotating basis during the breaks, following the
presentation of the author's work. A detailed program of these
demonstrations will be available at the conference.
OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEMONSTRATIONS
21 operational systems will be displayed throughout the confe-
rence in the Exhibit Hall (lobby of bldg. 13). Some of these
systems will be demonstrated with an oral presentation (room 4-
270). A detailed program of these demonstrations will be availa-
ble at the conference.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND DIRECTIONS
PREREGISTRATION SHOULD BE RECEIVED PREFERABLY BY MARCH 4, 1988;
The registration fee for the conference is $ 275.00 if received
before March 4, and $325.00 after that date. It includes admis-
sion to all sessions, luncheons Monday through Wednesday, and the
Conference Proceedings.
Registration will be conducted on Sunday, March 20, 1988
from 5 PM - 8 PM and Monday, March 21, 1988 beginning at 7:30 AM
in Room 10-280, opposite the conference meeting room (Room 10-
250). This area will be staffed from 8:00 AM until 6:00 PM each
day of the conference. A telephone and message board will be
located in this area. The conference telephone number is (617)
253-8864; Participants may give out this number and messages
will be posted in this room.
RECEPTIONS : There will be a cocktail and dinner at the Boston
Museum of Science, Wednesday, March 23, 1988 at 6:30 PM. The
fee is $30.00 and includes a visit of the West Wing of the
Museum. There will a number of guest speakers at this event. To
assist in planning this event, we ask that you complete the RSVP
on the registration form. The maximum capacity for this event is
200 persons. Reservations will be handled on a first come first
serve basis.
TOURS : A visit of the MIT Media Laboratory will be held Friday,
March 25, 1988 from 10 AM - 12 PM. Major areas of interest of the
lab are computer graphics, 3D imaging, computer animation, new
media for communication and computer music. There will be a
general presentation of the laboratory's work during the first
hour. The second hour will allow for exchanges between
scientists and researchers of the lab and conferees. There are a
limited number of spaces.
FOR INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FORMS, CONTACT:
In the United States:
RIAO88-CID
MIT Conference Services Office
Room 7-111
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Telephone: (1-617)253-1703
In Europe:
RIAO88-CID
36 bis rue Ballu
F-75009 PARIS
FRANCE
(33-1) 42 85 04 75
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