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