Thank you for attending AND 2010! The Fourth workshop in the AND series contains highquality work spanning a large array of disciplines related to the treatment of Noisy text. This year AND is collocated with CIKM so the flavor of IR and KM shows through in the AND program as well.
The final program consists of 11 papers selected from 21 submissions. Each paper was carefully reviewed by three Program Committee members. We would like to thank our Program Committee for selecting this high-quality program for AND 2010.
Papers in which a student is the primary author (first author/presenter) will be eligible for the IAPR Best Student Paper Award. The initial short listing for this award has been done based on the reviews. The final decision will be made during the workshop based on the presentations.
Also the best papers from the workshop will appear in a special issue of the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition after going through further reviewing. The selection for this is based on the reviews of the AND PC members.
We are excited to have Randy Geobel, University of Alberta, Canada, as the key note speaker. His talk is very interestingly titled "The nature of noise in linguistic corpora."