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
abstracts due 6th April, 2021(April 13, 2021) abstracts due 22nd May, 2021(June 1, 2021)
manuscripts due 13rd April, 2021(April 20, 2021) manuscripts due 25th May, 2021(June 8, 2021)
acceptance notice 18th May, 2021(May 25, 2021) acceptance notice 3rd July, 2021(July 10, 2021)

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

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

Call for competitors

Challenges

Challenge 1

This DocEng 2021 competition focuses at the challenges of automatic extractive and semi-extractive text summarization.

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.

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 Email
Rafael Dueire Lins rdl@ufpe.br
Steven J. Simske steve.simske@colostate.edu
Rafael Ferreira rafael.mello@ufrpe.br

Important Dates

Date
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.
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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:

  1. Title of the tutorial
  2. Organizer name(s) along with contact information, short biography, and selected publications
  3. Description of the tutorial and duration: half-day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours)
  4. A description of previous tutorial experience and past versions of the tutorial
  5. 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
  6. Outline of the tutorial (e.g., will it have a single speaker, a laboratory component) and description of material to be presented
  7. Description of the virtual format and tools required

Each workshop proposal must include:

  1. Title of the workshop
  2. Organizer name(s) along with contact information, short biography, and selected publications
  3. Description of the workshop and duration: half-day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours)
  4. A description of previous workshop experience and past versions of the workshop
  5. 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
  6. Outline of the workshop
  7. Details of the workshop logistics (e.g., will it have a PC and who will they be, will it have proceedings)
  8. 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
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.