CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE

GENERAL SESSION

Wednesday June 25, 1997

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9:00 - 9:15 a.m

Prof. P.R. Belanger

Vice Principal , Research

McGill University, Canada

9:15 - 9:30 a.m

J. Thuiller

Professeur au Collège de France

Co-Président du C.I.D.

9:30 - 10:00 a.m

GILS Project

N. Brodie

National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

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SESSION 1 :

INFORMATION DISCOVERY

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Chairman : L. Devroye, Mc Gill University

10:00 - 10: 25 a.m

M.S. Ackerman, B. Starr , M. Pazzani, University of California, USA

10:25 - 10:50 a.m

T. Dkaki, B. Dousset, J. Mothe. IRIT Universite P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France

10:50 - 11:20 a.m Break and Demonstrations

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SESSION 2 :

VISUALISATION TOOLS FOR INFORMATION NAVIGATION

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Chairman : S. Tohmé, ENST France

11:20 - 11:45 a.m

A. Cockburn, S. Jones. University of Canterbury, University of Waikato, New Zealand

11:45 - 12:10 a.m

A. Wexelblat, P. Maes. Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

12:10 - 12:35 p.m

J.Y. Nie, Université de Montréal, Canada

12:35 - 2:05 p.m LUNCH

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SESSION 3 :

AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTTING REPOSITORIES

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Chairman : G. Grefenstette, Rank Xerox

2:05 - 2:30 p.m

D.H. Jang, S.H. Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea

2:30 - 2:55 p.m

A. Lehmam, University of Nancy II, France

2:55 - 3:20 p.m

B. Chidlovskii ,U.M. Borghoff, P.Y. Chevalier, Rank Xerox Research Centre, France

3:20 - 3:45 p.m

B. Katz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

3:15 - 4:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations

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SESSION 4 :

LINGUISTIC APPROACH FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

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Chairman : R. Cencioni, European Community

4:15 - 4:40 p.m

A.T. Arampatzis, T. Tsoris, C.H.A. Koster. Patras. Greece and Netherlands

4:40 - 5:05 p.m

R. Pohlmann, W. Kraaij. Utrecht University, TNO-TPD, Netherlands

5:05 - 5:30 p.m

S.A. Laribi, G. Desrocques, A. Laribi , J.C. Bassano,

Université d'Orléans, France. Université de Genève, Suisse

5:30 - 5:55 p.m

M. Mitra, C. Buckley, A. Singhal, C. Cardie, Cornell University, USA.

Thursday June 26, 1997

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SESSION 5 :

MULTILINGUAL APPROACH

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Chairman : C. Fluhr, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique. France

9:00 - 9:25 a.m

M.Wechsler, P. Sheridan, P. Schauble. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

9:25 - 9:50 a.m

D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA

9:50 - 10:15 a.m

D. Hiemstra, F. de Jong, W.Kraaij. University of Twente, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands.

10:15 - 10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations

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SESSION 6 :

IRS ARCHITECTURE

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Chairman : R. Marcus, Massachusetts Intitute of technology (USA)

10:45 - 11:10 a.m

B. Baldwin , C. Doran, J.C. Reynar, M. Niv, Srinivas, M. Wasson, University of Pennsylvania, USA

11:10 - 11:35 am

F. Corvaisier, A. Mille, J.M. Pinon, INSA de LYON, France

11:35 - 12:00 am

V.N. Gudivada, S.P. Tolety. Wayne State University, University of Missouri, USA

12:00 - 1:30 pm LUNCH

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SESSION 7 :

INFORMATION EXTRACTION

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Chairman : C. Jacquemin. Universite de Nantes. France

1:30 - 2:45 pm Panel

2:45 - 3:10 pm

W. J. Black, L. Gilardoni, F. Rinaldi, R. Dressel. UMIST, UK. Quinary Spa, Italy

3:10 - 3:35 pm

O.R. Zaiane , A. Fall, S. Rochefort, V. Dahl - P. Tarau School of Computing Science. Simon Fraser University. Canada

3:35 - 4:00 pm

R. Gaizauskas, A.M. Robertson. University of Sheffield, UK

4:00 - 4:30 pm Break and Demonstrations

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SESSION 8 :

DOCUMENT / RELEVANCE RANKING

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Chairman : D.J. Harman, Nat Institute of Standards and Technology (US)

4:30 - 4:55 pm

I. Mani , E. Bloedorn The MITRE Corporation USA

4:55 - 5:20 pm

C.L.A. Clarke , G.V. Cormack, E.A. Tudhope, University of Toronto, Canada

5:20 - 5:45 pm

D.R. Cutting, J.O. Pedersen Excite Inc. USA

5:45 - 6:10 pm

T.G. Rose, P. J. Wyard, Canon, UK

Friday June 27, 1997

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SESSION 9 :

IRS ARCHITECTURE -II.

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Chairman : U. Heid, Universitat Von Stuttgard (D)

9:00 - 9:25 am

F. Menczer , R.K. Belew. University of California, USA

9:25 - 9:50 am

T. Mills, K. Moody, K. Rodden University of Cambridge, UK

9:50 - 10:15 am

A. Muller, A. Everts, GMD, Germany

10:15 - 10:45 am Break and Demonstrations

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SESSION 10 :

QUERY REFORMULATION

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Chairman : J.C. Bassano, Université d'Orléans France.

10:45 - 11:10 am

M. Boughanem, C. Soule-Dupuy,Université de Limoges,Université de Toulouse 1, France

11:10 - 11:35 am

P.D. Bruza , S. Dennis, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

11:35 - 12:00 am

G. Grefenstette. Rank Xerox Research Center, France

12:00 - 1:30 am LUNCH

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SESSION 11 :

INFORMATION FILTERING

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Chairman : Semenova, ANALIT, Moscow

1:30 - 1:55 pm

G. Amati, F. Crestani, F. Ubaldini, S. de Nardis. Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Universita di Roma, Universita di Padova, Italy

1:55 - 2:20 p.m

R. Chandrasekar , B. Srinivas, University of Pennsylvania, USA

2:20 - 2:45 p.m

Y. Marcoux, M. Sevigny, Université de Montréal, Canada

2:45 - 3:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations

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SESSION 12 :

INFORMATION EXTRACTION

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Chairman : J.P. Haton, Université Henri-Poincaré, Nancy 1, France

3:15 - 3:40 p.m

M. Iwayama, T. Tokunaga, Advanced Research Laboratory, Japon

3:40 - 4:05 p.m

U. Hahn, K. Schnattinger. Freiburg University Germany

4:05 - 4:30 p.m

H. Nakagawa. Yokohama National University, Japon

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SESSION 13 :

JURIDICAL PROBLEMS

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Chairman : J. Perriere, C.I.D.

4:30 - 4:55 p.m

M. Feral-Schuhl

Ordre des Avocats du Barreau de Paris, France

4:55 - 5:20 p.m

M. G. Arendt, Luxembourg

Président de la commission Informatique de l'Union Internationale des Avocats

5:20 - 5:45 p.m

M. Landry, Montréal, Canada, Union International des Avocats.

5:45 - 6:15 p.m Conclusions

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Thursday 26th june 1997
Communication languages : french and english

SPECIAL SESSION :

Cooperation program between France and Quebec Linguistic and knowledge engineering

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Chairman : S. Chaudiron, program coordinator for France (Ministry for education and research, DISTNB)

9:00 - 9:15 a.m

9:15 - 9:45 a.m

9:45 - 10:15 a.m

10:15 - 10:45 a.m

10:45 - 11:00 a.m

10:45 - 11:00 a.m Coffee break

Chairman : Claude Fleury, program coordinator for Québec, Ministère des relations internationales du Québec

11:00 - 11:30 a.m

11:30 - 12:00

12:00 - 12:30 p.m

12:30 - 1:00 a.m



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