In this paper, we propose an unsupervised approach for identifying bipolar person names in a set of topic documents. We employ principal component analysis (PCA) to discover bipol...
Diagrams are a critical part of virtually all scientific and technical documents. Analyzing diagrams will be important for building comprehensive document retrieval systems. This ...
Robert P. Futrelle, Mingyan Shao, Chris Cieslik, A...
As a result of well-publicized security concerns with direct recording electronic (DRE) voting, there is a growing call for systems that employ some form of paper artifact to prov...
Daniel P. Lopresti, George Nagy, Elisa H. Barney S...
In this article, we propose a new method that combines the use of a global threshold and a window-based scheme for computing local thresholds. The latter scheme compares the contr...
Fu Chang, Kung-Hao Liang, Tzu-Ming Tan, Wen-Liang ...
Table of contents (TOC) recognition has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. After reviewing the merits and drawbacks of the existing TOC recognition methods, we h...