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Call for Papers and Applications
RIAO 2010 - 9th RIAO Conference
Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information
28-30 April, 2010
Paris, France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
http://www.riao2010.org/

Important dates :
Paper submission deadline November 30, 2009
Notification to authors February 5, 2010
Camera-Ready copies due March 1, 2010
Conference dates April 28-30, 2010

History

This triannual international conference is the 9th RIAO conference.
Previous editions were held at Grenoble (1985), MIT (1988), Barcelona
(1991), Rockefeller University (1994), Montreal (1997), Paris (2000),
Avignon (2004), and Carnegie Mellon University (2007).
RIAO conferences have always treated robust and large-scale scientific
and industrial solutions to information processing. The conferences are
composed of peer-reviewed scientific sessions and demonstrations of
innovative industrial applications and advanced research prototypes.

Scope of the Conference

Submissions are invited which present recent, original and unpublished
research on the theme of RIAO 2010: adapting, personalizing and merging
heterogeneous information.
Submissions may address one or more of the following subjects:

Formal Models, Theory
Information filtering
. Content based filtering
. Collaborative filtering
. Recommender systems
. Spam, protection of minors
Personalized IR and User modelling
. Adaptive IR
. Collaborative IR
. Interfaces
Information fusion
. Mash Ups
. Aggregated search
. Systems for watch, business decision
Web Search and Advertising
. Adversial IR
. Advertising
. Link analysis
Machine Learning for IR
. Learning to rank
. Probabilistic topic models
. All kinds of learning techniques applied to IR
Information extraction and natural language processing, multilinguality
. Summarization
. Question answering
. Entity/relation extraction
. Cross-Language IR, Machine translation for IR
Multimedia Information Retrieval
. Image IR
. Video IR
. Speech/audio IR
. Music IR, analysis of multimedia content
Applications
. Cultural heritage
. Trademark search
. Scientific media
. Bio-computing and medical
. Database offloading
Evaluation, benchmarking
Social networks
. Folksonomies, tagging
. Blogs
. Social search
. Communities
. Opinion and sentiment

Paper Submission

We welcome submissions from both research and industrial communities
addressing the main conference themes.
Submitted papers must describe an unpublished origal work, emphasizing
completed or advanced research, possibly with releted experiments. A
parallel submission to other venues should be clearly indicated to the
program committee.
All submissions will be reviewed by at least three program committee
members. The submissions will be judged on the basis of originality,
relevance, technical quality, and presentation.
Papers can be submitted in two categories: full papers and short papers,
where full papers are appropriate for describing substantial research
with related evaluations and short papers will typically describe
ongoing research and preliminary results. All accepted papers in both
categories will be published in the conference proceedings. At the
conference, full papers will be presented as a talk and short papers
will be presented as a poster.
Long papers must not exceed 12 pages (5000 words), in one column format,
starting with an abstract. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages (2500
words), in one column, starting with an abstract.
Submissions should be in Microsoft Word format or in PDF.
The conference proceedings will be available to conference attendees,
and through the CID after the conference.



CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The RIAO conferences are meeting places for both scientific and
industrial specialists in information retrieval.
The facilities allow to present high-level peer-reviewed scientific
research conferences and prototypes and of innovative products, selected
by a special call for innovative applications. The displayed products
are chosen uniquely on the basis of their innovativeness. The general
topic of the Call for Applications is:

INNOVATIVE TOOLS PROVIDING PERSONNALIZED ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA AND/OR
MULTILINGUAL DATA.

Companies whose product fulfills the criteria of novelty and of
innovativeness can fill in a submission document designed by the
conference organizers that describes their submitted product. In
addition to the submission document, product submitters will have to
provide access to an online or CD version of the product that
demonstrates the claimed innovative functionalities of the product.
Every chosen company will be provided with a demonstration space
(including table and chair) free of charge. Each company may also be
given a special time slot (15 minutes) to give a short presentation
about the product. Descriptions of the products demonstrated during RIAO
2010 will be published in the proceedings. The selected companies will
also be invited to an event organized with Cap Digital business cluster
(http://www.capdigital.com) providing B2B meetings with top members of
the cluster followed by a networking event at La Cantine coworking space
http://lacantine.org/

Program Chairs
Gabriella Pasi (Europe)
Tie-Yan Liu (Asia)
Prabhakar Raghavan (Americas)

Program committee:
Agosti Maristella, University of Padova, Italy
Amati Giambattista, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Amitay Einat, IBM Research, Haifa Lab, Israel
Bailey Alex, Google Switzerland GmbH, Switzerland
Berendt Bettina, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Boldi Paolo, Consigio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Bordogna Gloria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Boughanem Mohand, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Brisaboa Nieves, Universidad de la Coruna, Spain
Bruza Peter, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Brusilovsky Peter, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Chen Hsin-Hsi, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Clarke Charles L.A., University of Waterloo, Canada
Crestani Fabio, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Croft Bruce, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Currin Cathal, Dublin University, Ireland
de Rijke Maarten, University of Amsterdam, Netherland
Dumais Susan, Microsoft research, USA
Efthimiadis Efthimis N., University of Washington, USA
David A. Evans, JustSystems Evans Research Corporation
Fernandez-Luna Juan M., University of Granada, Spain
Fluhr Christian, Cadege, France
Gallinari Patrick, University of Paris 6, France
Gaussier Eric, Universit de Grenoble, France
Grefenstette Gregory, Exalead, France
Grossman David Adam, ITT, USA
Harman Donna, NIST, USA
Jarvelin Kalervo, University of Tampere, Finland
Joho Hideo, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Jones Gareth, Dublin City University, United Kingdom
Jones Rosie, Yahoo! Inc., USA
Jose Joemon M, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Kando Noriko, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Lam Wai, University of Hong Kong, Hong-Kong
Li Yuefeng, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Liddy Liz, Syracuse University, USA
Lin Chin-Yew, Microsoft Research, China
Maarek Yoelle, Google (Haifa Engineering Center), Israel
Marchand-Maillet Stephane, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Melucci Massimo, Università di Padova, Italy
Mitra Mandar, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Moens Marie-Francine, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Moffat Alistair, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mothe Josiane, IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse, France
Murdock Vanessa, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Myaeng Sung Hyon, Information and Communication University, Korea
Nie Jian-Yun, University of Montreal, Canada
Nrnberger Andreas, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
Oard Douglas, University of Maryland, USA
Ounis Iadh, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Pasi Gabriella, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Peters Carol, Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione (IEI) -CNR, Italy
Piwowarski Benjamin, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Quénot Georges, IMAG, France
Raghavan Prabhakar, Yahoo research, USA
Roelleke Thomas, Queen Mary University, United Kingdom
Ruthven Ian, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Sakai Tetsuya, NewsWatch, Japan
Shaoping Ma, Tsinghua University, China
Silvestri Fabrizio, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione,
Italy
Smeaton Alan, Dublin City University, Ireland
Soulé-Dupuy Chantal, University of Toulouse 1, France
Vigna Sebastiano, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Vinciarelli Alessandro, IDIAP, Switzerland
Wilkinson Ross, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Zaragoza Hugo, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Zweigenbaum Pierre, Limsi/CNRS, France


Application chairs:
Philippe Roy, Cap Digital, France (Chair)
Josiane Mothe, IRIT, France (co-Chair)

Application committee:
Irina Blomquist, Digibusiness, Finland
Marie Buhot Launay, ARD, France
Marie-Odile Charaudeau, Aproged, France
David Evans, JustSystems Evans Research, USA
Alain Garnier, Jamespot, France
Catherine Gouttas, Thalès, France
Fabrice Lacroix, Antidot, France
Agnès Lainé, CFI, France
Marc Michel Pic, Advestigo, France
Cyril Rollinde, Freelance, Pondichery, India
Bernard Schmid, Vienna IT Enterprises , Austria
Jacqueline Thomas, CFI, France

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