Third International Workshop on Web Document Analysis
 

Technical Focus

This workshop is a forum for discussing emerging issues in document analysis in Web environments. Special attention will be given to new applications and requirements created by opportunities on the Internet (in the area of multimedia document analysis and management). We invite contributions in areas including but not limited to the following:

%G•%@ Layout analysis of Web documents and its applications to content extraction, multimodal access and Web mining.
%G•%@ Document understanding and semantic tagging for web services.
%G•%@ Digital document models: homogeneous representation of structured documents, hypertext and multimedia components.
%G•%@ Structural feature extraction for concept learning, extraction and retrieval.
%G•%@ Automated and semi-automated wrapping methods for information extraction.
%G•%@ Knowledge integration from heterogeneous collections of documents.
%G•%@ Theme extraction and document clustering/visualization.
%G•%@ Access of textual information embedded in Internet images.
%G•%@ Document image processing for Internet: data compression, color analysis, representation and coding for multiresolution or resolution-independent images.
%G•%@ Collaborative annotation and manipulation of documents on the Web.
%G•%@ Authoring, editing and presentation systems for complex multimedia documents.
%G•%@ Enterprise applications: intranet and workflow management.
%G•%@ Document analysis and reformatting for multimodal interfaces.
%G•%@ Web content summarization and repurposing for mobile access.
%G•%@ Cross-language multi-web-document summarization / knowledge integration.
%G•%@ Web Security and Image Understanding (CAPTCHAs).
%G•%@ Data collection and evaluation methods.

Workshop Format

WDA 2005 is planned to be a one-day single-track event. Participants are expected to give a short description of their work (submitted for review in the form of a short paper) and participate in the discussions.

The workshop will consist of short presentations grouped in thematic sessions. In addition there will be sessions focusing discussion on a number of specific topics as yet to be determined.

Publications

As in the previous editions of the workshop, accepted short papers will published in print for distribution at the workshop. Other formats also being considered include the conference Web site (for digests of discussions) and publication of expanded versions of papers in a book.

Submission Information

We invite the submission of original, previously unpublished work. Papers should identify current/future needs, open problems and discuss the authors' view of the subject and overall direction. Papers describing work in progress are also encouraged.

We also welcome, with some restrictions, submissions that are closely related to work submitted also to ICDAR2005. Authors can use this workshop as a forum to present work that differs materially from their ICDAR presentations, in any of several ways:

%G•%@ recent results too late for the ICDAR deadline;
%G•%@ methodological issues facing the WDA community;
%G•%@ proposals for community-wide data sets, experiments, competitions, websites etc.

Papers should be submitted via the Web in camera-ready format and should not exceed 4 printed pages. The format adopted is that of the IEEE-CS Conference Publications and is the same as that of ICDAR2005.

Full details of the formatting instructions, a sample document and templates for LaTeX and MS-Word users can be found at the ICDAR2005 submissions site (http://image.korea.ac.kr/icdar2005/paper.html). PDF is strongly preferred as the submission format, though PostScript may also be used.

Important Dates

Paper-submission due 15 April 2005
Author Notification 31 May 2005
Camera-ready copy due 30 June 2005
 
Web: http://wda2005.blogspot.com/