CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 
 
 
          Document Layout Interpretation and its Applications (DLIA99)
 
 
 
                        September 18, 1999 (before ICDAR99)
 
                              Bangalore, India
 
                       http://www.wins.uva.nl/events/dlia99
 
 
 
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WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
 
Thomas BREUEL, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Marcel WORRING,  University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
 
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Apostolos ANTONACOPOULOS, University of Liverpool, U.K.
Larry BAUM, The Boeing Company, USA
Abdel BELAID, CRIN/CNRS, France
Horst BUNKE, University of Bern, Switzerland
Andreas DENGEL, DFKI, Germany
David DOERMANN, University of Maryland, USA
Hiromichi FUJISAWA, Hitachi CRL, Japan
Patrick HAFFNER, AT&T labs, USA
Bob HARALICK, University of Washington, USA
Jianying HU, Bell Labs, Lucent Techs, USA
Jonathan HULL, Ricoh California Research Center, USA
Rolf INGOLD, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Yasuto ISHITANI, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
Koichi KISE, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Yasuaki NAKANO, Shinshu University, Japan
Lawrence O'GORMAN, Veridicom, Inc. USA
Theo PAVLIDIS, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
Thomas PHELPS, UC Berkeley, USA
Larry SPITZ, Document Recognition Technologies, USA
Luc Vincent, Xerox ScanSoft, USA
 
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TECHNICAL FOCUS:
 
 
The workshop will explore document layout interpretation and its
application in document conversion to structured formats (SGML,
MS Word, etc.), genre recognition, document databases and retrieval, and
automatic hypertext creation.  The aim of the workshop is to bring
together researchers in document layout analysis and groups developing
systems that apply document layout interpretation.  We want to
identify limitations of current systems and state-of-the-art research,
and explore the needs of users and applications.
 
We invite contributions from individuals or groups working in
the following areas:
 
  -- Layout analysis and page segmentation based either on
     general layout principles, document-specific grammars
     or models, or application specific constraints.
 
  -- Methods and systems that take advantage of document
     layout information for conversion to structured
     formats, hypertext creation, document management,
     and document databases.
 
  -- Acquisition of document models and parameter settings
     using techniques from statistics or machine learning.
 
  -- Creation of resources available to the document layout
     interpretation community (databases for training and
     evaluation, representations/interchange formats,
     available software).
 
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WORKSHOP FORMAT:
 
 
   This will be a one-day workshop for a maximum of about 50 participants.
Each participant will submit an extended abstract.  All participants
are expected to contribute to the discussions.
   Abstracts will be published before the workshop.  At the
beginning of the workshop, participants will present summaries
of current work, needs, and open problems.  Then, we will split
up into several discussion groups.  The afternoon session will
consist of a summary of results from the morning session, followed
by additional group discussions, and a plenary session at the
end of the day.
   After the workshop, the organizing committee will compile a Workshop
Summary, based on the working group notes, and make it available on the
Web.
It is hoped that the workshop will stimulate cooperative follow-on
activities
that will accelerate the pace of research in document layout interpretation
 
and its applications.
 
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EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:
 
 
Each potential participant or group of participants should submit an
extended
abstract which should arrive no later than March 15, 1999.
Abstracts may be submitted in one of the following forms:
 
 -- PDF or plain ASCII through the Web at
http://www.wins.uva.nl/events/dlia99
 
 -- Plain ASCII, by sending E-mail to dlia99@wins.uva.nl
 
 -- In paper form (least preferred), by sending mail to
    DLIA 99
    WINS-UVA
    Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam
    The Netherlands
 
The length should be limited to four printed pages including references.
The first page should include the name, address,
telephone, fax, and email address of the corresponding author and
possible co-authors.