April 15 - 17, 1996
Alexis Park Resort
Las Vegas, Nevada
Sponsored by the
Information Science Research Institute
and
The Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Symposium Chair
Henry S. Baird, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Invited Speakers
Information Retrieval - From Academic Research to Practical
Applications
Hans-Peter Frei; Union Bank of Switzerland
Substituting Images for Books: Library Economics, Technology,
and Politics
Michael Lesk; Bellcore
Text Recognition - From Pixels to Meaning
Juergen Schuermann; Daimler Benz Research Center
Team Debate
"Defect Models are Important to Advance the State-of-the-Art
of Optical Character Recognition"
Affirmative Team:
Henry S. Baird; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Robert Haralick; University of Washington
Negative Team:
Daniel Lopresti; Panasonic Technologies, Inc.
George Nagy; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Document Analysis Committee
Andreas Dengel, Chair, German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence (DFKI)
Norbert Bartneck, Daimler Benz Research Center
Hiromichi Fujisawa, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory
Jonathan Hull, Ricoh California Research Center
Junichi Kanai, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Larry Spitz, Daimler Benz Research and Technology Center
Suzanne Liebowitz Taylor, Loral Defense Systems
Karl Tombre, INRIA Lorraine
Information Retrieval Committee
Jan Pedersen, Chair, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Susan Dumais, Bellcore
Stephen Gallant, Belmont Research
Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards & Technology
Marti Hearst, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
David Lewis, AT&T Research
Peter Schauble, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Kazem Taghva, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Yiming Yang, Mayo Clinic/Foundation
Papers Presented
Maximum Spanning Trees for Text Segmentation
Antonio P. Dias; Harvard University
In-house Mail Distribution by Automatic Address and Content
Interpretation
Thomas Bruckner, Peter Suda, Hans Ulrich Block, Gerd
Maderlechner; Siemens AG, Corporate Research and Development
USeg: A Retargetable Word Segmentation Procedure for Information
Retrieval
Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft; University of Massachusetts
Text Categorization: A Symbolic Approach
Isabelle Moulinier, *Gailius Raskinis, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia;
University of Paris, *Vtautas Magnus University
Support Tools for Visual Information Management
Gokhan Kutlu, Bruce A. Draper, Eliot B. Moss, Edward M.
Riseman; University of Massachusetts
Edit Distance of Regular Languages
Horst Bunke; University of Bern
Language Identification: Examining the Issues
Penelope Sibun, *Jeffrey C. Reynar;
Northwestern University, *University of Pennsylvania
Fast Decision Tree Ensembles for Optical Character Recognition
Harris Drucker; AT&T Bell Laboratories
Length Normalization in Degraded Text Collections
Amit Singhal, Gerard Salton, Chris Buckley; Cornell University
Extraction of Thematically Relevant Text from Images
Francine R. Chen, Dan S. Bloomberg; Xerox PARC
Measuring the Effects of Data Corruption on Information Retrieval
Elke Mittendorf, Peter Schauble;
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Keyword-Based Browsing and Analysis of Large Document Sets
Ido Dagan, Ronen Feldman, *Haym Hirsh;
Bar-Ilan University, *Rutgers University
Tailoring a Retrieval System for Naive Users
Adrienne J. Kleiboemer, Manette B. Lazear, *Jan O. Pedersen;
MITRE Corporation, *Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Improving Full-Text Precision on Short Queries using Simple Constraints
Marti A. Hearst; Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Degraded Character Image Restoration
John D. Hobby, Henry S. Baird; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Automatically-Generated High-Reliability Features for Dichotomies
of Printed Characters
George Nagy, Xiaoyin Wang; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Retrieval Strategies for Noisy Text
Daniel Lopresti, Jiangying Zhou; Panasonic Technologies, Inc.
A General-Purpose Japanese Optical Character Recognition System
Sargur N. Srihari, Geetha Srikantan, Tao Hong, Brian Grom;
State University of New York at Buffalo, Center of Excellence
for Document Analysis and Recognition
OCR and Voting Shell Fulfilling Specific Text Analysis Requirements
Thorsten Jager;
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Logotype Detection in Compressed Images using Alignment Signatures
A. Lawrence Spitz; Daimler Benz Research and Technology Center
Reliable Recognition of Handwritten Marks in Checkboxes
B. Latanzio, A. Garzotto;
Swiss Life Information Systems Research
Generalized Form Registration Using Structure-Based Techniques
Michael D. Garris, Patrick J. Grother;
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Registration
Pre-Registration: before March 15, 1996
On-site Registration: Sunday, April 14, 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Monday, April 15, 7:00am to 11:00am
Tuesday, April 16, 7:30am to 11:00am
Location: Alexis Park Resort
Cost: $425.00 before March 15, 1996
$500.00 after March 15, 1996
Hotel Accommodations
Alexis Park Resort, located near the center of the Las Vegas strip,
is the host hotel for the 1996 Symposium. If you choose to stay at the
Alexis Park Resort, please make hotel reservations no later than March 14
to ensure room availability. A reservation form is included in this
advance program for your convenience.
Due to convention season in Las Vegas, ROOMS WILL FILL UP QUICKLY
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Fifth Annual Symposium on
Document Analysis and Information Retrieval
INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
April 15-17, 1996
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