SIGWEB has just launched a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ACMSIGWEB. Among others, this channel will feature recordings of keynotes from SIGWEB sponsored and co-sponsored conferences. Currently, you can watch the TheWebConf 2022 keynotes given by Jaime Teevan, Virginia Dignum and Prabhakar Raghavan, as well as the ACM UMAP 2021 keynotes by Helen Nissenbaum, Maarten de Rijke and Julita Vassileva. Enjoy and do not forget to subscribe to our channel for future updates.

The term of the current Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems & Technology (TIST) is coming to an end, and the ACM Publications Board has set up a nominating committee to assist the Board in selecting the next EiC. TIST was established in 2010 and has been experiencing steady growth, with 355 submissions received in 2020.

Nominations, including self nominations, are invited for a three-year term as TIST EiC, beginning on July 1, 2021. The EiC appointment may be renewed at most one time. This is an entirely voluntary position, but ACM will provide appropriate administrative support.

Appointed by the ACM Publications Board, Editors-in-Chief (EiCs) of ACM journals are delegated full responsibility for the editorial management of the journal consistent with the journal's charter and general ACM policies. The Board relies on EiCs to ensure that the content of the journal is of high quality and that the editorial review process is both timely and fair. He/she has final say on acceptance of papers, size of the Editorial Board, and appointment of Associate Editors. A complete list of responsibilities is found in the ACM Volunteer Editors Position Descriptions. Additional information can be found in the following documents:

• Rights and Responsibilities in ACM Publishing 
• ACM's Evaluation Criteria for Editors-in-Chief

Nominations should include a vita along with a brief statement of why the nominee should be considered. Self-nominations are encouraged, and should include a statement of the candidate's vision for the future development of TIST. The deadline for submitting nominations is May 20, 2021, although nominations will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. Please send all nominations to the nominating committee chair, V.S. Subrahmanian (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with a cc to Tina Pavlovich (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). The search committee members are:

• V.S. Subrahmanian (Dartmouth College), Chair
• Juergen Dix (Tech. University of Clausthal, Germany)
• Fosca Giannotti (National Research Council, Italy)
• Sarit Kraus (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
• Balaraman Ravindran (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
• Qiang Yang (Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technology, Hong Kong)
• Divesh Srivastava (AT&T), ACM Pubs Board Liaison

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 in Limerick, Ireland. Attendees at this international forum have interests that span all aspects of document engineering and applications.

The 21st ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
24th August, 2021 to 27th August, 2021
Limerick, Ireland
Call for Papers https://doceng.org/doceng2021/cfp

Important Dates

Full Papers

abstracts due	30th March, 2021
manuscripts due	13th April, 2021
acceptance notice	18th May, 2021

 

Short Papers / Application Notes

abstracts due	22th May, 2021
manuscripts due	25th May, 2021
acceptance notice	3rd July, 2021

 

23rd July, 2021: Camera-ready papers due

24th August, 2021: Workshops & tutorials

25th August, 2021: Conference starts

27th August, 2021: Conference ends

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, 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.

• Full papers: describing complete works of research (up to 10 pages).
• Short papers: describing smaller complete works of research, novel challenges or visions (up to 4 pages). 
• Application notes: describing systems or tools (up to 4 pages).

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=doceng2021

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:

• 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

The 14th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. Our original plan was to meet at Jerusalem, Israel, however, given the circumstances of the COVID19 pandemic, the conference will be held virtually, between March 8-12, 2021. We would like to invite you to join this exciting event. Please register through the conference web-site.

Deadline for early registration: Feb. 10, 2021

The highlights of the WSDM 2021 program are summarized as below.

1. Technical program: 112 regular papers

http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2021/accepted-papers.php

2. Keynotes

• Prof. Yoav Shoham (Stanford and AI21 Labs): Some thoughts on Computational Natural Language in the 21st century

• Prof. Sue Dumais (MS Research): Beyond Web Search: How Email Search is Different and Why it Matters

• Prof Eran Segal (Weizmann Ins.): Harnessing Big Data for Personalized Medicine

3. Tutorials

http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2021/tutorials.php

• Scalable Graph Neural Networks with Deep Graph Library
• Advances in Bias-aware Recommendation on the Web
• Information to Wisdom: Commonsense Knowledge Extraction and Compilation
• Beyond Probability Ranking Principle: Modeling the Dependencies among Documents
• Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking: BERT and Beyond
• Personalization in Practice: Methods and Applications
• Systemic Challenges and Solutions on Bias and Unfairness in Peer Review
• Neural Structured Learning: Training Neural Networks with Structured Signals
• WSDM 2021 Tutorial on Conversational Recommendation Systems
• Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection: Challenges, Methods, and Opportunities

4. Workshops

http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2021/workshops.php

• Integrity 2021: Integrity in Social Networks and Media.
• The International Workshop on Machine Reasoning in Web Search and Data Mining.
• Supporting and Understanding of Conversational Dialogues (SUD).
• WebTour 2021 Workshop on Web & Tourism.
• L2D 2021: First International Workshop on Enabling Data-Driven Decisions from Learning on the Web

 

The regular registration package includes all the technical presentations (keynotes, paper presentations, posters, tutorials, workshops, industry-day, doctoral consortium).