Creating and Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering

State of the Art and Future Research

Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain

2nd of June 2002

Program

9 h 00 Welcome and introduction

9 h 20 Semantics for information management session (C. Fluhr)

9 h 20-9 h 40

H. Liu & H. Lieberman

Robust Photo Retrieval Using World Semantics

9 h 40-10 h 00

R. F. Mihalcea

The Role of Semantic Networks in Information Retrieval

10 h 00-10 h 20

T. Brants & R. Stolle

Finding Redundancy in Document Collections

10 h 20-10 h 40

C. de Loupy & M. El-Bèze

Managing Synonymy and Polysemy in a Document Retrieval System Using WordNet

10 h 40-11 h 00

F. Sadat, A. Maeda, M. Yoshikawa & S. Uemura

Statistical query disambiguation, translation and expansion in cross-language information retrieval

11 h 00-11 h 20 coffee break

11 h 20 Word Sense Disambiguation session (N. Ide)

11 h 20-11 h 40

B. Jacquemin, C. Brun & C. Roux

Enriching a Text by Semantic Disambiguation for Information Extraction

11 h 40-12 h 00

G. Ramakrishnan & P. Bhattacharyya

Word Sense Disambiguation Using Semantic Sets based on WordNet

12 h 00-12 h 20

H. Kaji & Y. Morimoto

Towards Sense-Disambiguated Association Thesauri

12 h 20-13 h 50 lunch

13 h 50 TermAcq session (A. Nazarenko & M. Slodzian)

14 h 00-14 h 20

N. Grabar, P. Zweigenbaum

Lexically-Based Terminology Structuring: a Feasibility Stud

14 h 20-14 h 40

G. de Chalendar & B. Grau

Expansion by a Contextual Use of Classes of Nouns

14 h 40-15 h 00

A. Balvet

Integrating Common and Specific Knowledge in a Rules-Based Information Retrieval System

15 h 00 State of the art and future plan Session (C. de Loupy)

15 h 00-15 h 20

R. Krovetz

On the Importance of Word Sense Disambiguation for Information Retrieval

15 h 20-16 h 20 Round Table

Contact Person

Claude de Loupy

Sinequa
51-59 rue Ledru-Rollin
94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Tel: +33 1 49 87 06 00 / Fax: +33 1 49 87 06 01
email: loupy@sinequa.com