Call for Participation
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 MANAGER
Debbie Wallace
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
ftp site: ftp.isri.unlv.edu directory: /pub/SDAIR96
SCOPE
The symposium will present results of state-of-the-art research and provide
ample opportunity for the informal exchange of ideas in the field of
automatic extraction of information from images of printed documents.
High-quality refereed papers will be presented describing research on many
key 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
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
Sunday, April 14, 1996 (evening)
Welcome Reception
Monday, April 15, 1996
Invited Speakers:
Dr. H. P. Frei, Union Bank of Switzerland
Dr. Juergen Schuermann, Daimler Benz Research Center
Technical Presentations
Tuesday, April 16, 1996
Invited Speakers:
Dr. Michael Lesk, Bellcore
(to be announced)
Technical Presentations
Wednesday, April 17, 1996 (morning)
ISRI Annual Assessment Reports
Dr. Thomas A. Nartker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Staff of Information Science Research Institute