Noisy unstructured text data is ubiquitous in real-world communications. Text produced by processing signals for human use such as printed/handwritten documents, spontaneous speech, camera-captured scene images, are prime examples.  

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AND 2009 is a workshop devoted to issues arising from the need to contend with noisy inputs, the impact noise can have on downstream applications, and the demands it places on document analysis. The Third Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data will build on two previous successful AND workshops held in 2007 (in conjunction with the 20th Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence [IJCAI]) and in 2008 (in conjunction with the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference).

* Invited Talk by Hildelies Balk *

Hildelies Balk is the Programme Manager for the EU project IMPACT (IMproving ACcess to Text). IMPACT is the European Union project for mass digitization of printed European culture.

* Invited Talk by Venu Govindaraju *

Venu Govindaraju is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York, Buffalo. 

* Best Student Paper *

Christina Giannone won the IAPR Best Student Paper Award.

* Workshop Proceedings *

The proceedings of AND 2009 are available on ACM Digital library. 

* Journal Special Issue *

Extended versions of selected papers from the workshop will appear, after further reviewing, in a special issue of the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition published by Springer. 

* Pictures From the Workshop *