The RIAO 2007 conference
Adrian Stefan Popescu · ACM SIGIR Forum · 2007
This review summarizes the main topics covered by the presentations given at the RIAO 2007 Conference. The theme of this year's conference, "Large-scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound)", encompasses two current, and recurring, challenges in Information Retrieval: inclusion of semantics in retrieval and adaptation to different types of media. The use of the term "large-scale" underlines the need for scalable methods in real-world applications. RIAO 2007, hosting both innovative applications and research papers, presented a panorama of current trends in semantics based information retrieval.