The 21st ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
August 24, 2021 to August 27, 2021
Limerick, Ireland
Call for Papers
Note the extended deadlines!
The 21st ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2021) seeks original research papers that focus on the design, implementation, development, management, use and evaluation of advanced systems where document and document collections play a key role. DocEng emphasizes innovative approaches to document engineering technology, use of documents and document collections in real world applications, novel principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage, maintain, share, and productively use these. In particular, DocEng 2021 seeks contributions in the area of collaborative work with documents. You are invited to submit original papers to DocEng 2021, to be held virtually in Limerick, Ireland. Attendees at this international forum have interests that span all aspects of document engineering and applications.
For the safety of participants the conference will be held virtually.
Important Dates
| Full Papers | Short Papers & Application Notes |
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| abstracts due | abstracts due | ||
| manuscripts due | manuscripts due | ||
| acceptance notice | acceptance notice |
- 24th August, 2021: Virtual Workshops & tutorials
- 25th August, 2021: Virtual Conference starts
- 27th August, 2021: Virtual Conference ends
Proceedings and post-proceedings
Accepted articles will be published in the DocEng 2021 proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.
The program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each submission as well as its general accessibility to the DocEng audience. Papers will be judged on significance, originality, cohesiveness, and clarity. The paper must be organized so that it is easily understood by an audience with varied expertise. The paper should clearly identify what has been accomplished, why it is significant, and how it relates to previous work.
Submissions
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Full papers: describing complete works of research (up to 10 pages).
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Short papers: describing smaller complete works of research, novel challenges or visions (up to 4 pages).
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Application notes: describing systems or tools (up to 4 pages).
Submissions should be prepared using the ACM format. Guidelines are availables at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
Papers can be submitted online at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=doceng21
You can use EasyChair at the link above to register, submit the abstract without a manuscript and then, return before the deadline for manuscripts, and submit the manuscript!
Symposium Format
DocEng is a single-track conference attended by a community of academic and industrial researchers. It will be preceded by one day of workshops and tutorials.
Relevant Topics
We seek original contributions that are mainly focused on, but not necessarily limited to, the following topics:
| Relevant Topics | Relevant Topics |
|---|---|
| Collections, Systems, and Management AI in document processing and management Storage, indexing, retrieval, deduplication, cleansing Enterprise content management: models and standards, scale and performance Digital libraries: and archives preservation systems Massive collections of documents Systems and algorithms for safe and efficient document processing Scalable distributed document processing Modelling and Representation Document models and structures: multimedia objects, graphs, trees, streams, adaptive and responsive documents, probabilistic documents Document representation and standards: interchange standards, markup languages, style sheets Document type representation, metadata Linked data and semantics enrichment, linking techniques and standards Collaborative documents and sharing economy Document internationalization, multilingual representations Versioning Generation, Manipulation, and Presentation Document authoring tools and systems Document presentation: algorithms and systems for typography, formatting and layout generation Automatically generated documents, content customization, variable printing Mobile platforms and documents Document transformation User Experience Navigation, search Usability, accessibility, readability, and aesthetics Collaborative authoring and editing, curation and annotation Workflows, integration, and interaction between human and automated processes Culture-dependent layouts |
Document Content Analysis* AI in document content analysis Structure and visual representation analysis Linguistic and semantic (content) analysis, categorization, classification, clustering Automated tagging, named entity disambiguation, semantic linking, automatic image captioning OCR Error correction Systems for Visual Document Analysis* Historical document processing Handwritten character recognition Recognition of images, equations, drawings, music scores and other content in document images and layout description languages Recovery and assessing document quality from distortions and defects such as tears or blemishes Security Documents and privacy Secure document workflows, policy, and access, security for mobile and printing devices Security printing, including document identification, tagging and meta-data Cyber-physical document workflows, especially electronic/print options, including 3D printing workflows* Applications Digital humanities Digital preservation/archiving Open Science Education eBooks and digital publishing Web applications and systems Mobile applications |
* Pure document image or document content analysis papers are not out of scope but authors should clarify how the contribution relates to document engineering technology, use of documents or document collections
Authors Take Note
- The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
- DocEng is sponsored by ACM by means of the ACM SIGWEB Special Interest Group. Proceedings are available through the ACM Digital Library.
- Each DocEng paper must have at least one non-student registration for it to be presented at DocEng 2021 and be published in the DocEng 2021 Proceedings. Each workshop paper must have at least one workshop registration (of either category) to be presented at the workshop.
Call for competitors
Challenges
Challenge 1
This DocEng 2021 competition focuses at the challenges of automatic extractive and semi-extractive text summarization.
- This competition quantitatively assesses the extractive summarization methodology/tool proposed using the 3,000 texts in the CNN-corpus in English for single-document extractive text summarization of news articles.
- The CNN-corpus is available at: https://sites.google.com/view/summarizationcorpus
- The assessment methodology will be via the direct matching between the selected sentences and the gold-standard summary and also using ROUGE comparing each of the summaries with the highlights and the gold standards.
- The submitted methods will also be compared with the performance of other widely acknowledged publicly available summarization tools.
- A report on the competition will be published in the DocEng 2021 conference proceedings.
- For further information please contact the competition organizers.
Challenge 2
This DocEng 2021 competition focuses at the challenges of binarizing photographed documents assessing the providing solution both in terms of image quality and processing time.
- The basic training and test set for this competition is currently available at the DIB platform (https://dib.cin.ufpe.br), where there are several photographed documents acquired with different devices, under varying set-ups (strobe flash on/off), and with different illumination conditions.
- New images from different devices may be included in the test set.
- There will not be the “best algorithm" as the result of this competition, but the set of "best quality- time" algorithms for the different classes of documents.
- Several quality measures will be employed to rank the algorithms.
- The top ten results for each class of document/device/set-up is presented together with their average processing (c.p.u) time.
- The submitted algorithms will not only be compared among themselves, but also with 60 of the best known binarization algorithms.
- A report on the competition will be published in the DocEng 2021 conference proceedings.
- For further information please contact the competition organizers.
PLEASE NOTE: DocEng 2021 is a virtual conference. The proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library as in the previous years. DocEng ́20 proceedings are at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3395027
Organizers
| Name | |
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| Rafael Dueire Lins | rdl@ufpe.br |
| Steven J. Simske | steve.simske@colostate.edu |
| Rafael Ferreira | rafael.mello@ufrpe.br |
Important Dates
| Date | |
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| May 1 st , 2021 | Competition opens to the participants |
| July 31, 2021 | Deadline for the registration for the contest with submission of the required executable code as well as a short description of the participants’ summarization methodology. |
82,1 89%Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals
Help DocEng bring new and exciting areas of research to the document engineering community by proposing a workshop!
As in previous years, we plan to hold one day of tutorials and workshops before the start of the main conference. We would like to distinguish between tutorials and workshops. Workshops provide a setting in which to develop visions and exchange ideas in a specialized field of interest. Tutorials are held by a domain expert and introduce a current topic of interest to symposium attendees. Tutorials can provide a survey of recent literature on the topic, and/or a graduate-level treatment of the topic.
DocEng is looking for workshops and tutorials that are cutting edge, accessible to a wide audience, and delivered by world-class speakers. Workshop and tutorial proposals in all areas of document engineering are encouraged, especially those related to the theme of the conference.
Workshops and tutorials will be held on Tuesday, August 24, 2021.
Each tutorial proposal must include:
- Title of the tutorial
- Organizer name(s) along with contact information, short biography, and selected publications
- Description of the tutorial and duration: half-day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours)
- A description of previous tutorial experience and past versions of the tutorial
- Rationale for the tutorial including the importance, timeliness, and novelty of the tutorial and how it can introduce new tools, ideas, and topics to the document engineering community
- Outline of the tutorial (e.g., will it have a single speaker, a laboratory component) and description of material to be presented
- Description of the virtual format and tools required
Each workshop proposal must include:
- Title of the workshop
- Organizer name(s) along with contact information, short biography, and selected publications
- Description of the workshop and duration: half-day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours)
- A description of previous workshop experience and past versions of the workshop
- Rationale for the workshop including the importance, timeliness, and novelty of the workshop and how it can introduce new tools, ideas, and topics to the document engineering community
- Outline of the workshop
- Details of the workshop logistics (e.g., will it have a PC and who will they be, will it have proceedings)
- Description of the virtual format and tools required
We plan to publish all workshop proceedings in the ACM digital library as an appendix of the DocEng proceedings.
Important Dates
| Workshops | Tutorials | ||
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| proposals due | June 9, 2021 | proposals due | June 9, 2021 |
| acceptance notice | July 5, 2021 | acceptance notice | July 5, 2021 |
Evaluation Criteria
Workshop and tutorial proposals will be peer-reviewed based on the above information.
Submissions
Workshop/tutorial proposals must be submitted through EasyChair, with a 1-2 page PDF attachment addressing the above.
Please Note: DocEng 2021 is a virtual conference.