uiaregiriaoorg riao 2007 8th conference may 30 june 1 2007 pittsburgh pa usa largescale semantic access content call applications deadline march 16 2007 riao conferences meeting places scientific industrial specialists information retrieval sites presentations highlevel peerreviewed scientific research prototypes innovative products selected special call products global call products sent time call papers products presented chosen uniquely basis innovativeness centre de hautes études internationales dinformatique documentaire cid organizes riao conferences every three years since 1985 riao stands recherche dinformation assistée par ordinateur riao conferences two selection committees program committee scientific papers applications committee seeks selects innovative products conference riao conferences trade shows since teams presenting innovative products selected pay place time given conference companies whose product fulfills criteria novelty innovativeness fill dossier designed conference organizers describes submitted product addition dossier product submitters provide access online cd version product demonstrates claimed innovative functionalities product applications committee members verify functionalities product examination dossier demonstration product application committee members select best products chosen company provided demonstration space including table chair free charge space near amphitheatre scientific papers presented company may also given special time slot 15 minutes give short presentation product addition innovative products chosen riao 2007 able present financial prospects technology financing specialists venture capital private equity specifically invited presentations general topic call applications innovative tools providing access large volumes multimedia andor multilingual data among topics concerning theme conference submissions might concern one following subjects automatic indexing video images speech improved indexing text image video sound ontologies unstructured data semantic web ontologies fullscale information retrieval automatically producing textual descriptions images automatically adding metadata video sound indexing retrieval mixedmedia documents indexing interactive documents natural interface dialogue multimedia question answering systems competitive intelligence intelligent search agents multimodal search architectures semantic treatment large databases algorithms semantic treatment large databases comprehensionbased question answering summarization cooperative indexing media semantics less studied languages semantic representations standards collaborative construction semantic resources indexing multilingual collections automatic extraction ontologies unstructured data aligning multilingual ontologies language resources multimedia indexing extracting semantic resources raw data semantic annotation blogs videoblogs exploiting largescale resources elearning structuring cultural heritage technological commercial industrial watch systems semantic access large open archives descriptions products demonstrated riao 2007 published proceedings proposals products sent web site conference httpwwwriaoorgcyberapplicationsnewappliappliriao2007enhtml important dates submission march 16 2007 notification acceptance april 10 2007 conference may 30 june 1 2007 pittsburgh pa usa program chair frédéric le roux france josiane mothe france thu 07 aug 2008 152515 0100 uai cfp riao 2007 call applications