CALL FOR PAPERS

LREC 2008

Workshop on Multilingual and Comparative Perspectives in Specialized
Language Resources
26 May 2008 (Afternoon session)

To take place within the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC
2008) Marrakech, Morocco http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

Organizers:
Beatrice Daille LINA-CNRS, Universite de Nantes Kyo Kageura, Library and
Information Science, University of Tokyo Marie-Claude L'Homme, Observatoire
de linguistique Sens-Texte,
Universite de Montreal

Background

We are currently witnessing an increasing interest in multilingualism in
many different fields including IR (CLEF: Cross Language Evaluation Forum,
annual), summarization (DUC),semantic aspects (SemEval 2007 Task
1: Evaluating WSD on Cross-Language Information Retrieval), textual corpora,
etc. Although data mining and knowledge discovery in multimedia database systems, and domain experts in diverse areas, such as medical, surveillance, and education.


Topics of contributions include (but are not limited to):

Algorithms and Models

Association rules for multimedia data mining
Clustering algorithms for multimedia data mining
Classification algorithms for multimedia data mining
Conceptual clustering for multimedia data mining
Neural networks for multimedia data mining
Parallel and distributed data mining for multimedia data
Multimedia data mining in pervasive computing
Multimedia ontology
Stream data mining algorithms
Spatio-Temporal data mining and algorithms

Applications

Audio/Image/Video DBMSs
Data mining system for medical multimedia data
Multimedia segmentation
Visualization
Semantic web and annotation
Summarization and abstraction
Video abstraction
Contents-based image/video retrieval systems Visualization
Semantic web and annotation
Summarization and abstraction
Video abstraction
Contents-based image/video retrieval systems