============================================================================ IAPR TC11 Newsletter May 2010 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - DocEng2010, May 28, 2010 (short paper deadline extended!) ... (more below) * Calls for Papers - DocEng2010, Manchester, September 21-24, 2010 (updated) - AND 2010 (in conjunction with CIKM), Toronto, October 26, 2010 * Calls for Authors (deadline extended!) - Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence and Biometrics * Job Opportunities - Research Fellow in Document Image Analysis, CVC Barcelona, June 20, 2010 * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the May edition of our TC11 newsletter. In this edition I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the deadline for submission of short papers to DocEng2010 was extended to May 28. Furthermore, you will find enclosed the first Call for Papers for AND 2010, an updated Call for Authors, and a job offer for a Research Fellow at CVC, Barcelona. Best regards, Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DocEng2010, Manchester September 21-24 May 28, 2010 (see below) (http://www.primaresearch.org/doceng2010) * DRR 2011, San Francisco January 23-27 June 28, 2010 (http://www.cs.iit.edu/~drr2011/) * AND 2010, Toronto October 26 July 16, 2010 (http://sites.google.com/site/and2010workshop) in conjunction with CIKM * ICDAR 2011, Beijing September 18-21 March 1, 2011 (http://www.icdar2011.org/) ============================================================================ ========== Calls for Papers ================================================ DocEng2010 - 10th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering Manchester, UK, September 21-24, 2010 http://www.primaresearch.org/doceng2010 CALL FOR PAPERS The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering provides an annual international forum for presentations and discussions on principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. Proceedings are available through the ACM Digital Library. TOPICS & TECHNOLOGIES - Document representations - standards (ODF, PDF), models, type representation, metadata (MPEG-7, RDF), style sheets (CSS, XSL), markup languages (SGML, XML), multimedia (MPEG-4, SMIL, MHEG, NCL), multilingual representations, temporal aspects - Document manipulation - document transformation (XSLT, XQuery), adaptive documents, document presentation (typography, formatting, layout) - Document systems - workflow, cooperation, web services, social networking, engineering life cycle - Document system components - security, APIs (SAX, DOM), synchronization, system performance - Document collections - databases: storage, indexing, retrieval, content management systems, e-books - Document linking - techniques (e.g. XLink, Xpointer), blogs, wikis, integration with other digital artefacts - Document generation - authoring tools and systems, variable data printing, automatically generated documents - Document analysis - structure, layout and content analysis, categorization, classification, character recognition IMPORTANT DATES Short papers, posters & demos Abstracts due May 28, 2010 Papers due June 4, 2010 Acceptance notice by June 25, 2010 Revised versions due July 5, 2010 ORGANISERS General Chair Apostolos Antonacopoulos, University of Salford, UK Program Chairs Michael Gormish, Ricoh Innovations, USA Rolf Ingold, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Local Arrangements Chair Stefan Pletschacher, University of Salford, UK Technical Organisation Christos Papadopoulos, University of Salford, UK CONTACT doceng2010@primaresearch.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND) in conjunction with 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) October 26th, 2010, Toronto, Canada http://sites.google.com/site/and2010workshop Noisy unstructured text data is ubiquitous and abundant in real-world situations. Handling noisy text poses new challenges for Information Extraction (IE), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval (IR) and Knowledge Management (KM). Special handling of noise as well as noise-robust IR and KM techniques are essential to overcome these challenges. As in the case of AND 07, 08 and 09, we intend that AND 2010 will provide researchers an opportunity to present their latest results toward addressing these challenges. We seek papers dealing with all aspects of noisy unstructured text data and its processing. Topics of Interest (not limited to) * Methods for detecting and correcting errors in noisy text, * Information Retrieval from noisy text data, * Machine learning techniques for information extraction from noisy text, * Rule-based approaches for handling noisy text * Social network analysis involving noisy data * Crowd-sourcing methods for dealing with noisy data * Knowledge Management of noisy text data, * Automatic classification and clustering of noisy unstructured text data, * Noise-invariant document summarization techniques, * Text analysis techniques for analysis and mining of on-line communication texts such as transcribed calls, web logs, chat logs, tweets, microblogs, facebook posts, and email exchanges, * Business Intelligence (BI) applications dealing with noisy text data, * Document Representation and Content Analysis of noisy text documents * Interplay between linguistic complexity and uncertainty characterizing noisy text data in downstream applications, * Formal theory on characterization of noise, * Genre recognition based on the type of noise, * Characterizing, modeling and accounting for historical language change, * Surveys relating to noisy text analytics Submission Guidelines * We invite papers up to 8 pages in length in the style specified at http://sites.google.com/site/and2010workshop/submission * Make submissions online at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=and2010 * Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library A selected number of top-quality accepted papers will be invited to submit expanded versions for publication in the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) published by Springer for a special issue. Important Dates * Abstract Submission: July 16th, 2010 * Paper Submission: July 20th, 2010 * Notification of Acceptance: August 8th, 2010 * Camera-Ready papers due: August 15th, 2010 Contact * Shourya Roy - shourya.roy@xerox.com * L. Venkata Subramaniam - lvsubram@in.ibm.com ============================================================================ ========== Call for Authors (repost, deadline extended) ==================== Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence and Biometrics --- Expanding Frontiers Editor Patrick S.P. Wang, to be published by High Education Press (HEP) and Springer, January 2011 Invitation and Information for Authors 1. The first inauguration issue of this series of books has been planned to be published in memory of the late Prof. King-Sun Fu, pioneer of Pattern Recognition and founding President of IAPR who was born October 2, 1930 and passed away in April 29, 1985. 2011 will be his 81th birthday anniversary. Contributors to this first issue are now invited. 2. This book will be similar to the Springer/HEP edition in book style and format. Potential authors are encouraged to read the books about the format and style. More detailed manuscript formats are available from the following Springer web site: http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0 The final manuscript delivery should be in Word file (preferred) or Latex. 3. The book will include chapters with suggested 25 - 35 printed pages in average for each paper. 4. This book will cover both background and introductory information of the topic and the major research results and/or applications. The book is to be published for wider audience and readerships including those in academia, industry, government laboratories, hospital doctors, commercial businessmen and entrepreneurs. 5. The deadlines are as follows. July 15, 2010 for the 1st draft, October 15, 2010 for the full manuscript, and the camera ready final manuscripts will be delivered to the publisher by December 1, 2010. An early response from authors is appreciated. 6. Authors are responsible to obtain permission for using copyrighted materials. 7. Please direct any question of the book to: Prof. Patrick S.P. Wang, IAPR and ISIBM Fellow, patwang@ieee.org, or pwang@acm.org The following is a tentative table of contents. Preface Part 1 Basic Methods in Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Part 2 Basic Methods in Machine Vision and Image Processing Part 3 Fundamentals of Biometrics: fingerprint, handwriting, voice, face, iris, palm, modal, etc Part 4 Machine Vision, Pattern Recognition and Biometrics in Life Sciences, Security and Human ID Part 5. System , Technology, Modeling and Simulation ---------- Please reply by May 30, 2010 : to patwang@ieee.org [ ] I accept your invitation with proposed authors/chapter topic: [ ] I cannot accept your invitation but I suggest my colleague to write the chapter. Name(s):_______________________, Affiliation: ____________________, Tel: _______________________, Email: ______________________, Paper Title/author(s)________________________________________ ============================================================================ ========== Call for Contributions ========================================== This newsletter needs your support in order to provide useful information to the TC11 community. Therefore, please contribute relevant news by sending a short notice to the newsletter editor Gernot A. Fink . Such news could be the obvious announcements of confereces and workshops, job opportunities, reports on past conferences, book reviews, or anything that might be of interest to a wider audience involved in the construction of reading systems. ============================================================================ ========== Job Opportunities =============================================== The Pattern Recognition and Document Analysis group at the Computer Vision Centre (www.cvc.uab.es), Barcelona, Spain, offers one research fellow position in the area of Document Image Analysis. The successful applicant will join a vibrant group of 20 researchers and will be expected to contribute to the research activities of the group in one or more of the following areas: Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, Graphics Recognition, Handwriting Recognition and Colour / Perceptual DIA. A PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics or related discipline is required. Applicants will be expected to have a minimum of 4 years research experience in at least one of the following areas: Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Document Analysis. Strong motivation to conduct research and own initiative will be highly valued. This position is initially available for a period of 12 months. The candidate will be expected to start before September 2010. Gross salary will be at the level of EUR 38000. A travel allowance of EUR 750 as well as a career exploratory allowance of EUR 2000 will be made available to the successful candidate. The deadline for receiving applications is June 20th, 2010. Please see the Web site of the CVC or contact Dr Dimosthenis Karatzas for further information: Email: dimos@cvc.uab.es Web: http://www.cvc.uab.es ============================================================================ ========== Subscription Information ======================================== This newsletter is sent to subscribers of the IAPR TC11 mailing list. 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