CFP CORIA-CIFED 2010

*CORIA-CIFED Conferences - Joint Call for papers* *Topics : Information Retrieval , Handwritting and Document analysis, March 18th - 20th , 2010, Sousse, http://sdnri2010.loria.fr ** Important Dates * Abstract submission deadline: November, 22nd Full paper submission deadline: November, 29th Notification : January, 8th Final date for camera-ready version : January, 31st Description * We are pleased to announce that CORIA2010 and CIFED2010, sponsored respectively by the ARIA (French Association for Information Research and Applications) and by the GRCE (Research Group for Handwritten and Document Analysis), will be held in Sousse, Tunisia during March 18-20, 2010. For the first time, this joint edition of CIFED and CORIA will be an outstanding occasion for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience to share results/experience on common research topics in Information Research, Document Analysis, User & Interaction Models, Scalability, Performance Evaluation, etc., while keeping the own topics of the both communities (see the lists of topics of each conference below). CORIA Topics CORIA welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, including but not limited to: · IR Theory and Formal Models · Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms · Text Categorization, Clustering · Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR · Question answering, Natural language processing for IR, Summarization, Lexical acquisition · Information Extraction for IR, Text Mining · Multimedia IR, video retrieval, audio and music retrieval, cross-media retrieval, . Image processing for IR, audio processing for IR · Web IR (e.g. link analysis, query log analysis, ad targeting) · Social network: blog and online-community search, opinion & sentiment detection · Collaborative filtering, recommender systems · Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR, User interfaces and visualization · Knowledge engineering : Metadata, ontology, semantic Web · Digital Libraries, enterprise search, intranet search, desktop search · Domain-specific IR: genomic IR, geographic IR, legal IR, etc. · Distributed IR, peer to peer IR, Mobile IR, Fusion/Combination · Tools for IR: evaluation and test frameworks, platforms for experimentating systems · Query languages CIFED Topics The topics of interest of CIFED 2010 include, but are not limited to: · Basic research and methodologies for document and handwriting processing · Pattern recognition and image processing techniques · Acquisition, compression, segmentation of document image and handwriting · Document retrieval and understanding Systems (CBIR, spotting, ...) · Features extraction and organization for indexation purposes · Frameworks and strategies for document analysis · Layout analysis, automatic recognition and CMS · Character and handwriting recognition · Graphics and maps recognition · Writers and Signatures identification · Camera-based document processing and mobile devices, ... · Document databases and digital libraries and scalability · Multimedia Documents (videos, web, ...) · Sketching Interfaces · Performance Evaluation · Applications Submission Manuscripts of maximum 14 pages are encouraged to be submitted. Papers must describe original work on any of the related topics. The format templates and instructions for paper submission will be available in the Conference web site. The deadline for paper submission is November 29, 2009. Languages for papers can be French or English. Best papers will be published in a special issue of Document Numérique journal. CORIA: http://coria2010.loria.fr CIFED: http://cifed2010.loria.fr Program Committee Chairs: Brigitte GRAU (CORIA) Jean-Yves RAMEL (CIFED)