8. RIAO 2007: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
David Evans, Sadaoki Furui, Chantal Soulé-Dupuy (Eds.): Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval (Recherche d'Information et ses Applications) - RIAO 2007, 8th International Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 30 - June 1, 2007. Proceedings, CD-ROM. CID 2007
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.
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 Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Vincent de Keijzer, Nir Nussbaum: Unified Access to Heterogeneous Data in Cultural Heritage.
Alkesh Patel, Tanveer J. Siddiqui, Uma Shanker 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 Déjean: 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.
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.
Invited speaker
Alan F. Smeaton: Bridging the Molecular-Digital Divide: Instrumented Living Rooms and Social Media.
Session 3: Textual Queries and Search 1

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.
Session 5: Modeling Language and Search


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

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

Adrian Popescu: Image Retrieval Using a Multilingual Ontology.
Session 8: Peer-to-Peer and Web Search



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

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.


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.
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.



