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| The CENTRE DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES D’INFORMATIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE (C.I.D.) |
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Introduction |
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The Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d’Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D.), created in 1978 in Paris has as mission to promote new technologies for content-based information retrieval.
By content-based information retrieval, we mean any computer-based methods for recognising, extracting and exploiting information found in any non-structured media (text, image, video, sound) in any language. Information that we receive these days can be compared to energy. Like energy, information can appear in many forms and be exploited in a wide variety of ways. The exploitation of information requires the development of techniques for extracting, for finding structure, for transforming the information, and for treating larger and larger volumes in shorter and shorter times. The progress that has been attained and that is still to come provokes an intense interest in administrations and in industry. Content-based multi-media information access helps respond to the following questions: |
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How can a producer find an electronic commerce client for their product? How can an enterprise know more about their market, their clients, their competition, and about new technology so that they create new products (business intelligence)? How can information be filtered an exploited to acquire new knowledge (continuing education)? How can company knowledge be managed, preserved and transmitted (knowledge management)? How can we recognize novel information for a given task? How can we filter information? How can information streams be monitored for terrorist and criminal information?
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As for research issues in content-based information access, we seek answers to questions such as: |
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How can we know gather prior art for new research?
How can we preserve, manage and transfer information created in laboratories? How can we perform and efficient and effective technology watch? How can our discoveries be shared with other teams? How can scientific information in a different language be accessed and understood? How can we know if a scientific discovery should be patented? Which strategic axes should a research organism develop, based on technology watch? |
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The answers to these questions, as well as to many others, requires a good command of techniques for searching, analysing, filtering and structuring unstructured information.
Current search engines are rudimentary and imperfect, while the state-of-the-art in information retrieval and information structuring is much more advanced. Computer-assisted information retrieval is intrinsically pluridisciplinary, requiring competence in diverse technologies: computer sciences, linguistics, signal treatment, image treatment, speech recognition, etc… The information to be extracted and structured appears not only in text, but in graphs, images, sound, and video.. The C.I.D. stimulates the dialogue between the research and industrial community, creating an awareness of the complexity of the problems faced, as well as the answers that different companies and researchers are bringing to them. The C.I.D., by organizing high-quality international conferences every three years, reunites the communities of researchers and industrial partners to exchange and share information on the state-of-the-art concerning the problems of content-based information access, as well as presenting selected innovative products meeting these problems. The C.I.D. is also a not-for-profit organisation that produces studies, white papers, and provides consulting for requirement analysis and continuing education for industrial and government users, helping them better understand current economic, social and technological evolutions in the Information Society. |
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