Workshop on Tagging, Mining and Retrieval of Human Related Activity Information - At the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces - ICMI

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Workshop on Tagging, Mining and Retrieval of Human Related Activity Information - http://www.adapx.com/retrieval-ws-2007/



At the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces - ICMI - http://www.acm.org/icmi/2007



November 15, 2007

Nagoya, Japan



Rationale and aims:



Inexpensive and user friendly cameras, microphones, and other devices such as digital pens are making it increasingly easy to capture, store and process large amounts of data over a variety of media.



This opportunity has been embraced by a large number of people, and resulted in the availability of high volumes of digital photos, videos, audio recordings. Additional opportunities present themselves for capture of even richer data, for example during lectures, meetings, or informal gatherings.



Even though the barriers for data acquisition have been lowered, making use of these data remains challenging. Effective use presupposes a large investment in manual organization, e.g. by careful, labor-intensive labeling of data, manual clustering (e.g. via foldering), or manual extraction and transcription of important information.



As a result of the difficulties involved in finding and reusing information, particularly as the volume grows, large amounts of collected data remains unused and inaccessible. Because of that, the collection efforts tend to be abandoned, or not even implemented, given the low immediate payoff and the high cost of organization. More importantly, information that could lead to enhanced performance during learning or work situations remain untapped.



The focus of the present workshop is therefore on issues related to theory, methods and techniques for facilitating the organization, retrieval and reuse of multimodal information. The emphasis is on organization and retrieval of information related to human activity, i.e. that is generated and consumed by individuals and groups as they go about their work, learning and leisure.



Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:



* Collaborative multimodal elicitation of tags; social tagging and social use of multimodal materials;

* Automated and semi-automated techniques for tag extraction;

* Cross-modal, cross-media annotation; non-textual tags;

* Tangible/non-conventional interfaces for organizing, annotating and retrieving multimodal materials; gestural interfaces;

* Detection an extraction/mining of complex, multi-faceted items such as action items, decisions from multimodal streams;

* Interfaces for retrieval; non-textual retrieval techniques: appearance-based, phonetic, digital ink-based search; relevance feedback;

* Automated organization of multimodal materials to facilitate retrieval; presentation issues; summarization;

* Context and content-sensitive tagging and retrieval; sensor-, temporal-, and semantic-based tagging and retrieval;

* Multi-document annotation; emergent annotation and retrieval processes;

* Human issues related to the organization and retrieval of multimodal materials; linguistic and cognitive aspects of multimodal tagging and retrieval;

* Multimodal approaches to retrieval of non-conventional data such as music;

* Collection and analysis infrastructures; collection methodologies; interfaces for analysts;

* Applications in science, education, entertainment; industrial applications.



Workshop format:



We hope to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines, in areas related to information retrieval, content-analysis, and HCI. The workshop will consist of a mixture of long and short presentations and demonstrations of novel applications and new technologies.



The submission process will be in two stages. First, one page summaries will be submitted and reviewed. Authors of accepted 1-page summaries will then be invited to submit (2-4-8 pages) papers. Submissions should conform to ACM publication format described at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Please submit summaries in PDF format to both workshop organizers:



Paulo Barthelmess - Paulo (at) Adapx (dot) com

Edward Kaiser - Ed.Kaiser (at) Adapx (dot) com



The one-page summaries will be included in the ICMI conference proceedings. Opportunities for publication of the best workshop papers will be discussed during the workshop.



Important Dates:



6 August 2007 - Submission of a one-page abstract

13 August 2007 - Invitation to submit papers

28 September 2007 - Submission of papers

15 October 2007 - Final acceptance notice

12 November 2007 - Conference starts

15 November 2007 - Workshop



Program Committee:



Alberto del-Bimbo, U of Firenze; Trevor Darrell, MIT; Sadaoki Furui - Tokyo Institute of Technology; Jyri Huopaniemi - Nokia Research; Alejandro Jaimes, IDIAP; Michael Johnston, ATT; Michael Lyons, Ritsumeikan U, Kyoto; R. Manmatha, U of Mass Amherst; Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Anton Nijholt, University of Twente; Doug Oard, U of Maryland; David Palmer, Virage; Stanley Peters, Stanford; Fabio Pianesi, ITC-IRST; Nicu Sebe - U of Amsterdam; Stefan Siersdorfer, U of Sheffield; Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo Research; Massimo Zancanaro, ITC- IRST; Lei Zhang, MS Research China