DocEng 2025: Call for Papers

The 25th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng'25) seeks original research papers focusing on the design, implementation, development, management, use, and evaluation of advanced systems where documents and document collections play a key role. DocEng emphasizes innovative approaches to document engineering technology, real-world applications, and novel principles, tools, and processes that enhance the creation, management, maintenance, sharing, and productive use of documents.

The symposium will be held in-person at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, from September 2, 2025 to September 5, 2025.

Theme

DocEng'25 particularly welcomes contributions on the theme of Document Trust and Security.

Submission Types and Deadlines

Full Papers

• abstracts due: April 22, 2025
• manuscripts due: April 29, 2025
• acceptance notice: June 3, 2025

Short Papers & Demonstrations

• abstracts due: June 10, 2025
• manuscripts due: June 17, 2025
• acceptance notice: July 15, 2025

Submission Guidelines

• 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).
• Demonstrations: Abstract highlighting use cases, systems, or processes focused on document engineering (up to 2 page abstract).

Submissions should be prepared using the ACM format. Note that Word users should use the interim template; DocEng does not use TAPS.

Accepted papers will be presented as a talk or poster. Demonstrators will give 10-minute presentations in a demonstration session.

Submissions can be made online at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=doceng25

Relevant Topics

We seek original contributions on the following topics:

Document Trust and Security

• Documents and privacy
• Document authentication
• Document encryption
• Secure document workflows, policy, and access, security for mobile and printing devices
• Security printing, including document identification, tagging and meta-data

Machine Learning for Digital Documents

• Applications of Large Language Models in Document Processing and Creation
• AI in document processing and management
• AI in document content analysis
• Generative Systems

Digital Accessibility

• Models for representing Accessibility in Documents
• Interfaces for accessing document structures
• Alternative User Experiences for document consumption
• Document Repurposing for accessibility

Collections, Systems, 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 internationalisation, multilingual representations
• Versioning

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

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

Applications

• Digital humanities
• Digital preservation/archiving
• Open Science
• Education
• eBooks and digital publishing
• Web applications and systems
• Mobile applications
• Cyber-physical document workflows, especially electronic/print options, including 3D printing workflows

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

Publication and Presentation

• Accepted articles will be published in the DocEng 2025 proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.
• Papers will be judged on significance, originality, and clarity.
• Each DocEng paper must have at least one non-student registration for it to be presented at DocEng 2025 and be published in the DocEng 2025 Proceedings.

Fair Access and Student Support

SIGWEB is committed to providing fair access and student support through travel grants. Details can be found on the dedicated Fair Access and Student Support page.

Policies

Authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects.

Each author and co-author must obtain an ORCID ID for the publishing process.

Contact Information

Please contact the organizers via docengsymposium@gmail.com.