Badji Mokhtar Annaba University 
Faculty of Sciences and Engeneering

Department of Computer Science  

International Workshop on
Text, Image and Speech Recognition
Annaba, Algeria, December 12-14^th,  2005

http://www.univ-annaba.org/TISR’05
http://www.lri-annaba.net/TISR’05

New/Nouveau : Registration to TISR'2005 is now open / Inscription ouverte à TISR'2005

The purpose of the International Workshop on “Text, Image & Speech Recognition” is to promote discussions and interactions between researchers and practitioners focused on the areas described down below. We are particularly interested in fostering the exchange of concepts, prototypes, research ideas, and other results which could contribute to the academic area and also benefit business and the industrial community. TISR’2005 will include presentations to contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. A special section  will be devoted for exploring research, development and novel applications in Arabic language automation (machine translation, arabic handwritting and speech recognition, numerical cataloguing, postal sorting,  valorization of inheritance, and so on).

We welcome papers describing original contributions in all fields of Document synthesis and analysis, Image and Speech recognition research. Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, correctness and clarity. Its contribution should be clearly explained in both general and technical terms, and authors should make every effort to ensure that its technical content is understandable by a broad audience. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Comité du Programme/ Program Committee (In progress)

Annaba

Called Hippo-Regius, then Hippone, Annaba town and seaport on the Mediterranean coast near Tunisian border was founded in 12^th century B.C . It was the favourite residence of kings of Numidia. In 46 B.C, as result of the war between Caesar and Pompey,  it  became roman. After that, it experienced, successively, Vandal and Byzantine occupations till the seventh century A.D.

In Annaba  you'll find the 1,000-year-old Sidi Merouane Mosque and the cathedral of St. Augustine. (St. Augustine wrote his book The City of God there in the 5th century.) The cathedral is set on a hill with a wonderful view of the city and the Roman ruins of Hippo. It was built by Arabs in the 7th century on the site of Aphrodisium, the Ancient Roman port of Hippo, which was the bishopric of St Augustine in the 5th century. In the seventh century, Hippone took the name of BOUNA EL HADITHA.

In the sixteenth century, it received the name of ANNABA because of numerous jujube trees, which grow in the region. In 1522, the town was marked by the Ottoman Empire’s stamp. From1535 to 1540, the Spanish occupied it. Then, “LA COMPAGNIE D’AFRIQUE” founded there a commercial counter, which played preponderant role in the Mediterranean sea. In 1832, The City fell into French hands and received a new name "BONE", In 1897, Eberhardt and her mother traveled to Bone and where both converted to Islam. It was at this time that Eberhardt began exploring the Sahara, disguised as an Arab. At the end of the french occupation (1962), the town find one's name again Annaba.

ANNABA TODAY :  Chief town of Wilaya (department) of 556 000 inhabitants. Coastal town of 1411,98 km². Lent against the massif of Edough,  Annaba region is characterised by a great variety of different resources: agriculture, forests, mines, industry and tourism. It is the fourth city of Algeria after Algiers, Oran and Constantine. It became university town in 1975.