DOCENG

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2012 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering -- DocEng 2012, which is being held September 4-7, 2012, in Paris, France. This year's symposium continues its tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on leading edge issues of document presentation and adaptation, analysis, modeling, transformation, systems, theory, and applications. The mission of the symposium is to share significant results, to evaluate novel approaches and models, and to identify promising directions for future research and development. DocEng gives researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of document engineering.

The call for papers attracted 89 submissions from Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, the Russian Federation, and the United States. The program committee accepted 14 of 42 full paper submissions (33%), plus another 20 short papers, and 5 demos and posters, for a combined acceptance rate of 44%. The papers cover a variety of topics, including Layout and Presentation Control, Document Analysis, OCR and Visual Analysis, Multimedia and Hypermedia, XML and Related Tools, Architecture and Document Management, Search and Sense-making, and Digital Humanities. In addition, the program includes workshops on authoring issues, and on education models and curricula for Document Engineering. DocEng 2012 features keynote speeches by Bruno Bachimont of the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, and Université de Technologie de Compiàgne, and by Thierry Delprat of Nuxeo. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for document engineering researchers and developers.