International Workshop On Research Issues in Digital Libraries
(IWRIDL 2006)

The number of Digital Library initiatives worldwide has been increasing in recent times. The problem of organizing and accessing information from these digital libraries has given rise to research issues like indexing and retrieval, multilingual and multimedia information processing, natural language processing and many others. This workshop is intended to give participants a better understanding of these issues, along with an awareness of state-of-the-art tools and technologies involved in digital libraries, through invited lectures by internationally renowned researchers, practitioners, and developers. Interested participants from academia, government and industry are invited to attend the workshop to exchange views and to help formulate future directions of research in this exciting area.

The workshop will address the following sub-areas:

Indexing/Retrieval Multilingual Information Access Natural Language Processing Image/Multimedia Document Analysis and Processing IR/DL Tools Standardization Issues (Archiving, Annotation, Metadata)

We are delighted to have among us as

Contributors : Karen Spärck Jones (confirmed) Donald H. Kraft (confirmed) Carol Peters (confirmed) George Nagy (confirmed) Stephen M. Griffin (confirmed) Richard Wright (confirmed) Henry S. Baird William I. Grosky Contributors and Speakers : Stephen Robertson (confirmed) Gérard Huet (confirmed) Michel Beigbeder (confirmed) Brigitte Grau (confirmed) Hiromichi Fujisawa (confirmed) Joemon M. Jose (confirmed) Prateek Sarkar (confirmed) Hsin-Hsi Chen (confirmed) Norbert Fuhr (confirmed) Michael S. Hart (confirmed) Ian H. Witten (confirmed) Michael J. Kurtz (confirmed) Christian Fluhr (confirmed) Gabriella Pasi (confirmed) Noriko Kando (confirmed) Edward A. Fox

Organisers :

ISI, Kolkata

C-DAC, Kolkata

IIT, Kharagpur