Workshop on
OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION WITH WORKFLOW AND

DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION (OCR & DS-2005)

Under

UNIVERSAL   DIGITAL   LIBRARY
19 - 20 March, 2005

Sponsored by
  Ministry of Communication & Information Technology , New Delhi

Hosted by
  Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad  
(Deemed University)
Deoghat, Jhalwa, Allahabad - 211011 (U.P.)

Email: udl@iiita.ac.in

Website: http://www.iiita.ac.in/workshop/udl2005/

About IIIT-Allahabad: 

The Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A) was established in 1999, as a center of excellence in Information Technology and allied areas. The Institute was conferred the "Deemed University" status by Govt. of India in the year 2000. The Institute has been conceived with the ambitious objectives of developing professional expertise and skilled manpower in Information Technology (IT) and related areas.  The beautiful 100 acre campus, situated at Deoghat, Jhalwa, designed meticulously on the Penrose Geometry pattern, is being further topped by the fine landscaping to give an all round soothing effect to create a stimulating environment to indulge in the true pursuit of excellence in the field of Information technology. 
A modular course design, along with several opportunities for industry training, gives students the freedom to tailor their learning experience. The mission of IIIT, Allahabad is to be a unique and world class nucleating "Apex Center of Excellence" in the area of Information Technology and Allied Sciences, so as to enhance India's Technological strength in IT and become a pace-setting Institution for other similar institutes to be established in the future. For further details visit http://www.iiita.ac.in

About UDL

The Universal digital library has the vision " A Million Books To The Web Assembling - The World's Biggest Library On Everybody's Desktop". The basic motive of the Universal Digital Library (UDL) project is to provide access to the rich repository of knowledge to everybody. 

The initiative was taken by a group of institutions spread across different parts of the country together with the Carnegie Melon University (USA). The IIIT-A was designated as a mega-center in the project. The major objective is to capture and store more than a million books in the digital format and to develop the required language technologies. A workshop on some language technologies is being organized at IIIT - Allahabad. Also visit http://www.iiita.ac.in/workshop/udl2005/

WORKSHOP FOCUS:

* OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION WITH WORKFLOW

* DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION

Paper Submission :

The Length of paper must not exceed six A-4 size pages with 12-point text. The format will be MS Word or PDf.

Important Dates:
Last  Date of submission of paper:                 3rd March, 2005
Acceptance Notification:                                  6th March, 2005
Last Date for submitting camera-ready        12th March, 2005

Registration Charges:

Delegates:                       Rs. 500  
Students:                         Rs. 250

One can also register-online Registration form or Download the form from here.
Website: http://www.iiita.ac.in/workshop/udl2005/

Accommodation:

Accommodation will be provided in the IIIT- A Guest house. Requests for accommodations will be entertained on the first come first serve basis.

Grant: 

A limited financial support will be given to deserving students as 2nd class (sleeper) fare. If their papers will be selected. The registration fees for those students will also be waived.

Venue:                       Auditorium, Administrative Block, IIIT Allahabad  
                                    Deoghat, Jhalwa, Allahabad - 211011 (U.P.) 

Contact:                    Dr. Ratna Sanyal  

                                    Coordinator, UDL Project, IIIT - Allahabad  

                                    Deoghat, Jhalwa, Allahabad - 211011 (U.P.)   

                                    Email: rsanyal@iiita.ac.in; udl@iiita.ac.in

                                    Phone: 9415648260; 0532-2552376-ext:4005

Advisory Committee:

2.  Prof. N. Balakrishnan, IISc, Bangalore

3.  Dr. M. D. Tiwari, Allahabad

4.  Dr. Om Vikas, , Dept. of MCIT, Delhi

5.  Dr. S. Majumder, CSL, Delhi

6.  Dr. S. Gopalakrishnan, NMM, Delhi

7.  Dr. H K Kaul, DELNET, Delhi

8.  Dr. U M Munshi INSA, Delhi

9.  Dr. U Chatterjee, MHRD, Delhi

10. Mr. V Poonraj, TI, Delhi

11.Mr. D C Kar , TERI Delhi

Program Committee:

2. Prof. R. Sanghal, IIIT Hyderabad

3. Prof. A. B. Saha, CDAC, Kolkata

4. Dr. V. N. Shukla, CDAC Noida

5. Dr. U. S. Tiwari, IIITA

6. Dr. S. Sanyal, IIITA

7. Dr. R. Sanyal, IIITA (Coordinator)

Support Committee (IIIT-A):  

Administrative Support