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
Footprints: History-Rich Web Browsing
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
TREC in Many Languages
* TREC-5: English
D. Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
* TREC-5: Spanish and Chinese
A. Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
* The Amaryllis Project
C. Fluhr
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, France
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
Cobra: A new approach to IR System design
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