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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 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boughanem mohand irit université paul sabatier france boujemaa nozha inria france brajnik giorgio university udine italy callan jamie carnegie mellon university usa chen hsinhsi national taiwan university taiwan chen yixin university mississippi usa chevalier max irit université paul sabatier france christmas william university surrey uk crestani fabio university strathclyde uk daelemans walter anvers university belgium de jong franciska university twente netherlands downie stephen j university illinois urbanachampaign usa duygulu pinar bilkent university turkey ellis daniel columbia university usa enser peter university brighton uk federico marcello itcirst trente italy fluhr christian cealist france fuhr norbert university duisberg deutchland fung pascale university science technology hong kong china gallinari patrick lip6 paris france garofolo john nist usa gaussier eric university grenoble france gauvain jeanluc limsi france geoffrois edouard dga france gonzalo julio uned spain grau brigitte limsi chm lir france grefenstette gregory cealist france grosky william michigan dearborn university usa haindl michal iita czech republic halin gilles loria france hansen john h l university dallas usa harman donna nist usa hirtle stephen c university pittsburgh usa kando noriko national institute informatics nii japan kotropoulos constantine aristotle university thessaloniki greece kurimo mikko helsinki university technology finland lagus krista helsinki university technology finland lalmas mounia queen mary university london uk lam wai chinese university hong kong hong kong china leung howard city hong kong university hong kong china liddy elizabeth syracuse university usa liu hugo mit media laboratory usa lu hanging chinese academy sciences institute automation china marcotegui beatriz école des mines france mccowan iain csiro australia meng helen chinese university hong kong china nie jianyun université de montréal canada oard douglas university maryland usa ounis iadh university glasgow uk pachet francois sony france pardas montse universitat polytecnica de catalunya spain pasi gabriella cnr itm milan italy pauwels eric cwi amsterdam netherlands petek bojan university ljubljana slovenia peters carol cnr italia pinon jeanmarie liris insa lyon france popat ashok google usa pun thierry cui université de genève switzerland qu yan clairvoyance corporation usa rauber andreas vienna university technology austria renals steve university edinburgh uk sakai tetsuya knowledge media lab toshiba corp rd center japan sasaki yutaka atr japon saracevic tefko rutgers state university new jersey usa savoy jacques université de neuchatel switzerland smeaton alan dublin city university ireland takenobu tokunaga tokyo institute technology japan tzanetakis george university victoria canada van rijsbergen keith university glasgow uk wilkinson ross csiro australia xu guangyou tsinghua university beijing china zhang zhengyou microsoft research usa zhao rong state university new york usa zhou ming microsoft research hong kong china zreik khaldoun université de caen france thu 07 aug 2008 141825 0100 uai cfp riao 2007 submission deadline extended dec 15 2006