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ICDAR
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Devanagari and Bangla Text Extraction from Natural Scene Images
With the increasing popularity of digital cameras attached with various handheld devices, many new computational challenges have gained significance. One such problem is extractio...
Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Swapan K. Parui, Srikanta Mon...
GIS
1998
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Natural-Language Spatial Relations Between Linear and Areal Objects: The Topology and Metric of English-Language Terms
Spatial relations are the basis for many selections users perform when they query geographic information systems (GISs). Although such query languages use natural-language-like te...
A. Rashid B. M. Shariff, Max J. Egenhofer, David M...
ICDE
2010
IEEE
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15 years 6 months ago
Explaining Structured Queries in Natural Language
— Many applications offer a form-based environment for na¨ıve users for accessing databases without being familiar with the database schema or a structured query language. User...
Alkis Simitsis, Georgia Koutrika, Yannis E. Ioanni...
FOCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
A Characterization of the (natural) Graph Properties Testable with One-Sided Error
The problem of characterizing all the testable graph properties is considered by many to be the most important open problem in the area of property-testing. Our main result in thi...
Noga Alon, Asaf Shapira
ACMIDC
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Gifts for intertwining with modern nature
Inspired by Froebel’s Gifts for kindergarten, we propose a new category of gifts for modern preschools. Modern Nature Gifts are meta-manipulatives, inviting deeper exploration o...
Jay S. Silver, Eric Rosenbaum