Call for Papers SDAIR '97 Sixth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval April 20-23, 1997 Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada SPONSOR Information Science Research Institute University of Nevada, Las Vegas SYMPOSIUM CHAIR Jan O. Pedersen Xerox Palo Alto Research Center pedersen@parc.xerox.com PROGRAM CHAIRS Document Analysis: Hiromichi Fujisawa Hitachi Central Research Lab fujisawa@crl.hitachi.co.jp Information Retrieval: Susan Dumais Bellcore std@bellcore.com SYMPOSIUM SECRETARY Patty Corhn University of Nevada, Las Vegas Information Science Research Institute 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 (702)895-3338 (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 Multilingual Retrieval User Interaction and Interfaces Text Representation Retrieval from Structured Documents Evaluation of IR Systems 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: Hiromichi Fujisawa, Chair (Document Analysis) c/o Information Science Research Institute University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 Susan Dumais, 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'97 review period. Manuscripts must arrive on or before the due date. Both camera-ready paper and machine-readable source copies of accepted papers will be required. The proceedings will be available at the conference. Student papers are encouraged. The symposium will present a prize for the best accepted student paper. CONFERENCE TIMETABLE Papers Due September 30, 1996 Notification To Authors December 2, 1996 Camera Ready and Machine Readable Copy January 15, 1997 DOCUMENT ANALYSIS COMMITTEE: Hiromichi FUJISAWA, chair, Hitachi Central Research Lab Andreas DENGEL, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Tin Kam HO, Bell Laboratories Jonathan J. HULL, Ricoh California Research Center Junichi KANAI, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Seong Whan LEE, Korea University Yasuaki NAKANO, Shinshu University Larry SPITZ, Daimler Benz Research & Technical Center Suzanne TAYLOR, Lockheed Martin Karl TOMBRE, INRIA Lorraine INFORMATION RETRIEVAL COMMITTEE: Susan DUMAIS, Chair, Bellcore Robert ALLEN, Bellcore Abe BOOKSTEIN, University of Chicago Jamie CALLAN, University of Massachusetts Stephen GALLANT, Belmont Research Donna HARMAN, National Institute of Standards and Technology David HULL, Rank Xerox Research Center Kazem TAGHVA, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas Peter SCHAUBLE, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Ellen VOORHEES, National Institute of Standards and Technology Ross WILKENSON, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology