Call for Papers SDAIR '96 Fifth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval April 15-17, 1996 Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada SPONSOR Information Science Research Institute University of Nevada, Las Vegas SYMPOSIUM CHAIR Henry S. Baird AT&T Bell Laboratories henry.baird@att.com PROGRAM CHAIRS Document Analysis: Andreas Dengel German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) dengel@dfki.uni-kl.de Information Retrieval: Jan Pedersen Xerox Palo Alto Research Center pedersen@parc.xerox.com SYMPOSIUM SECRETARY Mary C. Guirsch University of Nevada, Las Vegas Information Science Research Institute 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 (702)895-4571 (702)895-1183 (fax) sdair@isri.unlv.edu SCOPE The purpose of this symposium is to present results of state-of-the-art research and to encourage the exchange of ideas in the general field of automatic extraction of information from images of printed documents. Papers are solicited on all aspects of document image analysis and information retrieval, both theoretical and applied, with particular emphasis on: Document Analysis: High-Accuracy Transcription Postprocessing of OCR Results Keyword Search in Textual Images Multilingual OCR, Language ID, etc. Geometric and Logical Layout Analysis Recognition of Forms, Tables and Equations Models of Document Image Degradation Methods for Performance Evaluation Information Retrieval: Full-Text Retrieval Retrieval from OCR'ed Text Image and Multimedia Retrieval Text Categorization Retrieval from Structured Documents Language-Specific Influences on Retrieval Evaluation of IR Systems Text Representation Papers on subjects in the intersection of these two areas will be given priority. SUBMISSIONS Please send five copies of complete papers, with the corresponding author's name, postal address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address, to the appropriate Chair: Andreas Dengel, Chair (Document Analysis) c/o Information Science Research Institute University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 Jan O. Pedersen, Chair (Info. Retrieval) c/o Information Science Research Institute University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 Manuscripts should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages or 5,000 words and should not already have been accepted for publication by another conference or journal, nor should they be submitted elsewhere during the SDAIR'96 review period. Both camera-ready paper and machine-readable source copies of accepted papers will be required. The proceedings will be available at the conference. CONFERENCE TIMETABLE Papers Due September 30, 1995 Notification To Authors December 1, 1995 Camera Ready and Machine Readable Copy January 15, 1996 DOCUMENT ANALYSIS COMMITTEE: Andreas DENGEL, Chair, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Norbert BARTNECK, Daimler Benz Research Center Hiromichi FUJISAWA, Hitachi Central Research Lab Jonathan HULL, Ricoh California Research Center Junichi KANAI, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Larry SPITZ, Consultant, Palo Alto, CA Suzanne TAYLOR, Loral Research Laboratory Karl TOMBRE, INRIA Lorraine INFORMATION RETRIEVAL COMMITTEE: Jan PEDERSEN, Chair, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Susan DUMAIS, Bellcore Stephen GALLANT, Belmont, Inc. Donna HARMAN, National Institute of Standards & Technology Marti HEARST, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center David LEWIS, AT&T Bell Laboratories Peter SCHAUBLE, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Kazem TAGHVA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Yiming YANG, Mayo Clinic/Foundation