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
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Symposium Chair
Henry S. Baird, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Invited Speakers
Hans-Peter Frei, Union Bank of Switzerland
Michael Lesk, Bellcore
Juergen Schuermann, Daimler Benz Research Center
Debate Teams
Henry S. Baird, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Robert Haralick, University of Washington
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 Lab
Jonathan Hull, Ricoh California Research Center
Junichi Kanai, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Larry Spitz, Daimler Benz Research Center
Suzanne Taylor, Loral Research Laboratory
Karl Tombre, INRIA Lorraine
Information Retrieval Committee
Jan Pedersen, Chair, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Susan Dumais, Bellcore
Stephen Gallant, Belmont
Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards & Technology
Marti Hearst, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
David Lewis, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Peter Schauble, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Kazem Taghva, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Yiming Yang, Mayo Clinic/Foundation
Symposium Manager
Debbie Wallace
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Information Science Research Institute
4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 454021
Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021
(702)895-3338 fax:(702)895-1183
sdair@isri.unlv.edu
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Sunday, April 14, 1996
7:00pm - 10:00pm Alexis Park Resort
Reception and Registration
Monday, April 15, 1996
7:00am - 11:00am Alexis Park Resort
Registration
8:15am - 8:30am Alexis Park Resort
Welcome
Henry S. Baird, Symposium Chair
AT&T Bell Laboratories
William R. Wells, Dean
Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Kazem Taghva, Associate Director
Information Science Research Institute
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
8:30am - 9:15am Alexis Park Resort
Invited Speaker
Substituting Images for Books: Library Economics, Technology,
and Politics
Michael Lesk
Bellcore
9:15am - 10:15am Alexis Park Resort
Session 1
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
10:15am - 10:30am Alexis Park Resort
Refreshment Break
10:30am - 12:00pm Alexis Park Resort
Session 2
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
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Lunch Alexis Park Resort
1:15pm - 2:00pm Alexis Park Resort
Invited Speaker
Text Recognition - From Pixels to Meaning
Juergen Schuermann
Daimler Benz Research Center
2:00pm - 3:30pm Alexis Park Resort
Session 3
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
3:30pm - 3:45pm Alexis Park Resort
Refreshment Break
3:45pm - 5:15pm Alexis Park Resort
Session 4
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 Palo Alto Research Center
Measuring the Effects of Data Corruption on Information Retrieval
Elke Mittendorf, Peter Schauble;
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Happy Hour
Dinner
Boyd Dining Room, Frank and Estella Beam Hall,
William F. Harrah College of Hotel Adminstration, UNLV
Tuesday, April 16, 1996
7:30am - 11:00am Alexis Park Resort
Registration
8:00am - 8:45am Alexis Park Resort
Invited Speaker
Information Retrieval - From Academic Research to Practical
Applications
Hans-Peter Frei
Union Bank of Switzerland
8:45am - 10:15am Alexis Park Resort
Session 5
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
10:15am - 10:30am Alexis Park Resort
Refreshment Break
10:30am - 12:00pm Alexis Park Resort
Session 6
Degraded Character Image Restoration
John D. Hobby, Henry S. Baird; AT&T Bell Laboratories
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.
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Lunch Alexis Park Resort
1:15pm - 2:00pm Alexis Park Resort
Team Debate
"Defect Models are Important to Advance the State-of-the-Art
of Optical Character Recognition"
Affirmative Team:
Henry S. Baird
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Robert Haralick
University of Washington
Negative Team:
Daniel Lopresti
Panasonic Technologies, Inc.
George Nagy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Moderator:
Tom Nartker
Information Science Research Institute
2:00pm - 3:30pm Alexis Park Resort
Session 7
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)
Histograms to Evaluate OCR Accuracy and OCR Coupling
Philippe Lefevre; EDF-Direction des Etudes et Recherches
3:30pm - 3:45pm Alexis Park Resort
Refreshment Break
3:45pm - 5:15pm Alexis Park Resort
Session 8
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
5:15pm Alexis Park Resort
Symposium Adjourn
Wednesday, April 17, 1996
8:20am - 8:30am Alexis Park Resort
ISRI Welcome
Thomas A. Nartker, Director
Information Science Research Institute
Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
8:30am - 9:45am Alexis Park Resort
The Fifth Annual Test of OCR Accuracy
Steve Rice
Information Science Research Institute
9:45am - 10:00am Alexis Park Resort
Refreshment Break
10:00am - 12:00pm Alexis Park Resort
ISRI Research Reviews
ISRI Staff
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Invited Speakers
Hans-Peter Frei is the head of UBILAB, the Information
Technology Research and Innovation Laboratory of the Union Bank of
Switzerland (UBS).
Dr. Frei holds a diploma in mathematics and a Ph.D. in computer
science from the University of Zurich. Before joining UBS, he was a
professor of computer science and chairman of the Department of Computer
Science at ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich,
Switzerland. Prior to that he was the head of a management support unit
of a large Swiss insurance company.
Dr. Frei has held several research positions with various
research institutions, such as HumRRO, IBM Research, Xerox PARC,
University of Melbourne, and ICSI of the UC Berkeley. His research
interests focus on interactive systems and in particular on information
and document processing.
Michael Lesk received the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Physics in
1969. He joined the computer science research group at Bell
Laboratories, where he worked until 1984. Since 1984 he has managed the
computer science research group at Bellcore.
Dr. Lesk is best known for work in electronic libraries,
including the CORE project for chemical information, and for writing
some Unix system utilities including those for table printing (tbl),
lexical analyzers (lex), and inter-system mail (uucp). His other
technical interests include document production and retrieval software,
computer networks, computer languages, and human-computer interfaces.
Dr. Lesk has been chair of the Association for Computing
Machinery's special interest groups on Language Analysis and on
Information Retrieval. During 1987 he was Senior Visiting Fellow of the
British Library, and he is currently Visiting Professor of Computer
Science at University College London.
Juergen Schuermann received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in
Communications Engineering in 1960 and the Dr.-Ing. degree in 1968, both
from the Technical University in Berlin, Germany.
In 1963 Dr. Schuermann joined the Telefunken Research
Laboratories in Ulm, Germany, which later became part of Daimler-Benz
Research. Since 1974 he has been teaching Pattern Recognition at the
Technical University of Darmstadt where he has served as Honorary
Professor since 1981.
Presently he is heading the Pattern Understanding Group of the
Information Technology Department at Daimler-Benz Research embracing
efforts in Text, Speech and Image Understanding. Together with his
research group and the respective development departments he has been
closely involved in the development of document understanding systems -
especially in the postal business (AEG-ElectroCom) and in speech
understanding systems, vision based driver assistance systems, and
imaging radar systems for traffic applications.
Dr. Schuermann is the general chair of the forthcoming
International Conference in Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR'97,
to be held in August 1997 in Ulm Germany.
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Debate Teams
Henry S. Baird is a Member of Technical Staff at the Computing
Science Research Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New
Jersey. His research focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms
for machine vision with emphasis on the interpretation of images of
printed documents.
Dr. Baird is an Area Editor for the journal Computer Vision and
Image Understanding. In 1989-91, he was an Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He was
principal organizer of the 1990 IAPR Workshop on Syntactic and
Structural Pattern Recognition.
His Princeton University Ph.D. thesis on algorithms for image
matching won a 1984 ACM Distinguished Dissertation Award and was
published by the MIT Press. In 1976, his Master's thesis gave the first
complete description of the sweep-line algorithm, a fundamental
technique in computational geometry.
Dr. Baird is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of ACM, and
active in the IAPR.
Bob Haralick is the Boeing Clairmont Egtvedt Professor in
Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. His recent work
is in shape analysis and extraction using the techniques of mathematical
morphology, robust pose estimation, techniques for making geometric
inferences from perspective projection information, propagation of
random perturbations through image analysis algorithms, and in document
image analysis.
Dr. Haralick joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering
Department at the University of Kansas from 1975 to 1978. In 1979 he
joined the EE Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute where he was
Professor and Director of the Spatial Data Analysis Laboratory. From
1984 to 1986, he served as Vice President of Research at Machine Vision
International in Ann Arbor, MI.
Professor Haralick is a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions in
computer vision and image processing. He is a Fellow of the IAPR for
his contributions in image processing, computer vision and mathematical
morphology. He has served on the Editorial Board of IEEE PAMI and is a
past associate editor of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics and IEEE
Image Processing. He currently serves on the Editorial board of Real
Time Imaging and is an associate editor for Journal of Electronic
Imaging.
Dr. Haralick received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University
of Kansas in 1964, a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1966 and
an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1967. He completed his
Ph.D. at the University of Kansas in 1969.
Daniel Lopresti received the A.B. degree in Mathematics from
Dartmouth College in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from
Princeton University in 1987.
From 1986 until 1991, he was on the faculty of the Computer
Science Department at Brown University. In 1991 he joined the
newly-formed Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory as a Senior
Scientist and leader of the Carbon Project. His research interests
include document analysis, information retrieval, parallel VLSI
architectures, and computational aspects of molecular biology.
George Nagy received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from McGill
University, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell
University in 1962.
For the next ten years Dr. Nagy conducted research on various
aspects of pattern recognition and OCR at the IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center in Yorktown Heights. From 1972 to 1985 he was Professor of
Computer Science at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and worked on
remote sensing applications, geographic information systems,
computational geometry, and human-computer interfaces. Since 1985 he has
been Professor of Computer Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute.
Dr. Nagy has held visiting appointments at the Stanford Research
Institute, Cornell, the University of Montreal, the National Scientific
Research Institute of Quebec, the University of Genoa and the Italian
National Research Council in Naples and Genoa, AT&T Bell Laboratories,
IBM Almaden, McGill University, and the Information Science Research
Institute at UNLV.
In addition to document image analysis and character
recognition, his interests include solid modeling, finite-precision
spatial computation, and computer vision.
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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
Dinner Monday April 15, 1996
The College of Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas is one of the finest programs of its type in the nation, and has an
international reputation as well. We are delighted to have the students
from the College's Food and Beverage Management Department prepare and serve
an outstanding dinner for symposium guests on Monday evening from 6:00pm to
10:00pm. The dinner will be held in the Boyd Dining Room in Frank and Estella
Beam Hall. The cost is $20 per person. For resevations please fill out the
section on the attached symposium registration form.
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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Convention and Visitors Authority can give hotel information and make all
hotel room reservations throughout the city of Las Vegas. For more
information please call the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority
1-800-332-5333.
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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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