CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
Workshop on Conceptual Modelling in Multimedia Information Seeking
to be held in conjunction with
The 16th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'97)
Los Angeles, California, USA
3 - 6 November 1997
OVERVIEW
Information retrieval is now witnessing a booming interest in the
light of the ever-growing amount of information repositories available
on both local and, especially, distributed platforms, including the
Web and the Internet at large. The availability of multimedia
documents has given a new twist to information retrieval research,
unfortunately setting even farther in the future the time in which
generalized, completely automatic indexing methods will be available
that allow the answering of content-based queries. If a system really
capable of fully automatic recognition of "Authoritative sources on
the social impact of nuclear waste disposal" seem currently out of
reach, even more so for needs of "piano sonatas in styles influenced
by art nouveau", "cubist paintings representing violins" or "scenes on
sieges from war movies". While in a few decades these information
needs might be satisfied by fully automatic systems, for today and
tomorrow we will have to make do with systems relying on a mixture of
automatic, semi-automatic and manual indexing methods, as it is only
through manual intervention that it is possible to inform a retrieval
system of the ins and outs of a document.
In this respect, an important contribution to multimedia information
seeking may come from the conceptual modelling and knowledge
representation communities, as these have been developing formal and
semi-formal languages and methodologies for the representation of
information and for the conceptualization of an application domain. It
is expected that, in the mid to long term, successful information
seeking systems will have to be based on the close interplay of
manually (or semi-automatically) created representations of document
content based on conceptual modelling technology, and the
automatically created representations of document form of the
information retrieval tradition. The workshop may prove instrumental
in fostering the cross-fertilization between the more content-minded
conceptual modelling community and the more form-minded information
retrieval community.
TOPICS
The workshop will be centred around all aspects of the application of
conceptual modelling and knowledge representation methodologies and
techniques to information filtering, gathering and retrieval.
Principal topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Conceptual models for the retrieval of text, graphics, image,
video, and audio data
- Conceptual models for multimedia document representation and
retrieval
- Tools for automating the conceptual representation of documents
- Metadata in information seeking
- Knowledge-based information filtering, gathering and retrieval
- Methodologies for the integration of knowledge-based and
traditional document retrieval
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit via e-mail a self-contained LaTeX or
PostScript version of a position paper, including an abstract of up to
150 words, to:
Carlo Meghini
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione
Via S. Maria 46, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
E-mail: meghini@iei.pi.cnr.it
Fax: +39.(0)50.554342
The submission should not exceed ten pages (in standard article style)
and must be received by July the 20th, 1997. An e-mail address and the
fax number for the contact author should be included.
Attendees at this Workshop must register for the ER'97 conference and
must also pay an additional workshop registration fee.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
James Allan (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Peter Bruza (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Yves Chiaramella (University of Grenoble, France)
Norbert Fuhr (University of Dortmund, Germany)
Ramesh Jain (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Carlo Meghini (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy) (chair)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: August 15, 1997
Acceptance notification: August 31, 1997
Workshop: November 6-7, 1997 (to be confirmed)
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