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