Originally conceived as a "naive" baseline experiment using traditional n-gram language models as classifiers, the NCLEANER system has turned out to be a fast and lightw...
This paper describes the work achieved in the rst half of a 4-year cooperative research project ARCADE, nanced by AUPELF-UREF. The project is devoted to the evaluation of parallel...
Our proposed approach to text and line-art extraction requires accurately locating a text-string box and identifying external line vectors incident on the box. The results of extra...
Luyang Li, George Nagy, Ashok Samal, Sharad C. Set...
This article describes a finite-state cascade for the extraction of person names in texts in French. We extract these proper names in order to categorize and to cluster texts with...
A gestural text entry method for mobile is presented. Unlike most mobile phone text entry methods, which rely on repeatedly pressing buttons, our gestural method uses an isometric...