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research.bell-labs.com>* * * FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * * International Workshop on Performance Evaluation Issues in Multilingual OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Sunday, September 19, 1999, Bangalore, India (just before ICDAR'99 -- Int'l Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition) WORKSHOP CHAIRS Tapas KANUNGO University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA Henry S. BAIRD Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA USA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Badr AL-BADR King Abdulaziz City, Saudi Arabia Torsten CAESAR Siemens ElectroCom, Germany Bhabatosh CHANDA ISI Calcutta, India Doug COOPER Southeast Asian Software Research Center, Thailand Andreas DENGEL DFKI, Germany Steve DENNIS U. S. Government, USA Xiaoqing DING Tsinghua University, P.R. China David DOERMANN University of Maryland, USA Michel GILLOUX Service de Recherche Technique de la Poste, France Robert M. HARALICK University of Washington, USA Tin Kam HO Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA Donna HARMAN National Institute for Standards & Technology, USA Jonathan HULL Ricoh CRC, USA Fumitaka KIMURA Mie University, Japan Hsi-Jian LEE National Chiao Tung University, R.O. China Seong-Whan LEE Korea University, Korea Tomohiko MORIOKA Japan Advanced Institute for Science & Tech., Japan S. P. MUDUR National Center for Software Technology, India Yasuaki NAKANO Shinshu University, Japan Kris POPAT Xerox PARC, USA Philip RESNIK University of Maryland, USA A. Lawrence SPITZ Document Recognition Technologies, USA Rohini SRIHARI CEDAR, SUNY Buffalo, USA Ching Y. SUEN Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Yuan Yan TANG Hong Kong Baptist University, China Vadim TERESCHENKO ABBYY Software House, Russia Jun TSUKUMO NEC, Kanagawa, Japan Toru WAKAHARA NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Japan TECHNICAL FOCUS This workshop will explore evaluation methodologies for multilingual OCR systems. By `multilingual' we mean to include systems that are capable of reading more than one language in the same document, as well as one-language-per-document systems that can be easily retargeted to new languages. We hope to bring together researchers from many countries to discuss these and related questions: -- What methodologies should be used to evaluate multilingual OCR systems? How do we compare accuracies across languages? -- What ground-truthed data sets are now available in various languages? What kind of datasets need to be collected? How is this to be achieved? Which organizations might be willing to support such an the effort? -- What multilingual OCR evaluation tools and error visualization tools are available or should be developed? -- What OCR evaluation methods and metrics will be useful for OCR-based machine translation and cross-language information retrieval? -- What are the most pressing open research problems, promising dissertation topics, etc? WORKSHOP FORMAT This will be a one-day workshop for a maximum of 70 participants. Each participant will submit an extended abstract which will be distributed at the Workshop. All participants are expected to contribute to the discussions. At the outset of the workshop, three volunteers will present brief, informal summaries of the i) methodologies, ii) corpora, and iii) tools mentioned in the submitted abstracts. Then we will split up into three working groups, focused on these topics, and proceed to discuss key issues, attempt to resolve questions, compile lists of resources, and draw up recommendations. Finally, in a plenary session, representatives of each group will present their recommendations and invite general discussion. There will be several opportunities for informal discussion and socializing. 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 multilingual document image analysis. EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Each potential participant or group of participants should submit an extended abstract, electronically via E-mail (in plain ASCII), no later than March 30, 1999 to: Tapas Kanungo Center for Automation Research University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 E-mail: mlocrMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.rutgers.edu>We are pleased to announce the first Call for Student Papers for EACL'99 (Bergen, Norway 8--12 June 1999). The call (text version below) can be found at http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/eacl99-student/ The conference home page is at http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99/ The Student Session Programme Committee Jonas Kuhn, Student chair Atro Voutilainen, Faculty co-chair - --------------------------------------------------------------------- *** EACL'99 CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS *** Student Sessions at the 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics EACL'99 June 8 - 12, 1999 University of Bergen Bergen, Norway http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/eacl99-student/ - --------------------------------------------------------------------- PURPOSE: The goal of these sessions is to provide a forum for student members to present WORK IN PROGRESS and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community. The sessions will consist of paper presentations by student authors. The accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings. Note that the existence of the student sessions does not influence the treatment of student-authored papers submitted to the main conference. Rather, the aim of the student sessions is to provide a separate track emphasizing students' work in progress rather than completed work. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original, unpublished work in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. Topics of interest are the same as for the main conference. Papers submitted to the main conference cannot be considered for the student sessions. Students may, of course, submit DIFFERENT papers to the main conference and the student session, or papers on different aspects of a particular problem or project. Note that for papers presenting joint work, ALL co-authors have to be students. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: The maximum allowable length is 3 pages (about 1800 words), including references. Papers should be headed by a title page containing the paper ID code (see below), title, a short (5 line) summary, up to three general keywords specifying the subject area (e.g., "French syntax, machine translation"), the word count (excluding figures and bibliography) and a notice of multiple submission, if required. Since reviewing will be `blind', the title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) . . . ") should be avoided. Instead, use references of the form "Smith previously showed (1991) . . . " Care should be taken to avoid obvious giveaways in the bibliography such as listings for unpublished in-house technical reports. Papers outside the specified length and/or without an ID code are liable to rejection without review. To identify each paper, an ID code must be acquired by filing an electronic paper registration form: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/register.html On successful completion of this form an ID code will be sent to the designated author by e-mail. MEDIA OF SUBMISSION: Authors may submit their papers electronically or in hard copy. Electronic submission is strongly preferred. Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source, PostScript or PDF (we encourage LaTeX submissions). PostScript submissions must use a standard font. LaTeX submissions should not refer to any other external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. The bibliography for a LaTeX submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file. We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/eaclsub.sty (plus bibstyle acl.bst) or Word style files (MSWord_template.rtf) for the preparation of submissions. These styles include a place for the required information such as ID code and word count, and allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly, a description of the required format is at http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/substyle.html. If you cannot access this web page, send email to eacl99Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue