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ICADL
2007
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Humanities Graduate Students' Use Behavior on Full-Text Databases for Ancient Chinese Books
Digitizing ancient books, especially those related to the humanities, is practiced in many countries. The number of full-text databases in the humanities is increasing. Studies hav...
Ming-der Wu, Shih-chuan Chen
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 5 months ago
How to carry over historic books into social networks
This paper describes how to make use of e-books that look like printed books in a knowledge network. After an overview of digitalization efforts and current digital library initia...
Heimo Müller, Hermann A. Maurer
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 5 months ago
Partial duplicate detection for large book collections
A framework is presented for discovering partial duplicates in large collections of scanned books with optical character recognition (OCR) errors. Each book in the collection is r...
Ismet Zeki Yalniz, Ethem F. Can, R. Manmatha
ICIP
2002
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Straightening warped text lines using polynomial regression
Perspective distortion always occurs while scanning thick, bound documents, resulting in two problems in the scanned grayscale image ? (i) shade along the `spine' of the book...
Zheng Zhang 0003, Chew Lim Tan
IJCAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Locating Complex Named Entities in Web Text
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of locating and classifying names in text. In previous work, NER was limited to a small number of predefined entity classes (e.g., peop...
Doug Downey, Matthew Broadhead, Oren Etzioni