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

For the safety of participants the conference will be held virtually.

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, cohesiveness, 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.

Submissions
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=doceng21

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:

Relevant 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