DOCENG

We are pleased to welcome you in Berlin for the 19th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. DocEng 2019 is being organised by Fraunhofer FOKUS on September 23-26, 2019. Research papers at DocEng 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. The Symposium brings together researchers in all areas of document engineering from both academia and industry, to present and discuss the most recent advances in the field of Document Engineering.

Building on the experiences of previous years, the DocEng Symposium program consists of one day of side events followed by two and a half days of paper presentations. Highlights of the program include: A total of 38 accepted papers (15 full papers, 15 short papers & 8 posters); a welcome address given by Manfred Hauswirth (Fraunhofer FOKUS & TU Berlin) and a keynote on "Wikidata: The biggest Linked Open Data Commons in the world and how you can make use of it" given by Franziska Heine (Wikimedia Germany); three tutorials, "Introduction to XProc 3.0" (Erik Siegel), "SGML to the rescue - Using SGML with modern HTML" (Marcus Reichardt) & "More than just digital paper - hidden features of the PDF format" (Tamir Hassan, Klaas Posselt, Dietrich von Seggern & Thomas Zellmann); a competition ?Extractive Text Summarization? (Rafael Dueire Lins, Rafael Ferreira & Steven J. Simske); a BoF session led by Charles Nicholas; a doctoral consortium lunch and lightning plus poster presentation led by Cerstin Mahlow.

DocEng 2019 received a total of 77 papers; 39 of these papers were submitted in April as full papers, with a further 38 papers being submitted in May as short papers and application notes. All papers were reviewed by at least three Program Committee members and based on these recommendations, the Symposium accepted 15 (38%) papers as full papers and 5 papers as short papers in the first round, and 10 (26%) papers as short papers and 8 papers as posters in the second round. All 30 accepted papers were allocated oral presentations, whereas all 8 accepted posters were allocated lightning plus poster presentations.

We hope that the Symposium will provide a stimulating and engaging environment for participants to exchange ideas and perspectives. We also hope that these proceedings are not only a snapshot of the state of the art, but also serve as useful reference material for years to come.