13,289 research outputs found
Text Line Segmentation of Historical Documents: a Survey
There is a huge amount of historical documents in libraries and in various
National Archives that have not been exploited electronically. Although
automatic reading of complete pages remains, in most cases, a long-term
objective, tasks such as word spotting, text/image alignment, authentication
and extraction of specific fields are in use today. For all these tasks, a
major step is document segmentation into text lines. Because of the low quality
and the complexity of these documents (background noise, artifacts due to
aging, interfering lines),automatic text line segmentation remains an open
research field. The objective of this paper is to present a survey of existing
methods, developed during the last decade, and dedicated to documents of
historical interest.Comment: 25 pages, submitted version, To appear in International Journal on
Document Analysis and Recognition, On line version available at
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Hospitality Information Systems: Intuitive, Object-Oriented, and Wireless Technology
Automated information system design and implementation is one of the fastest changing aspects of the hospitality industry. During the past several years nothing has increased the professionalism or improved the productivity within the industry more than the application of computer technology. Intuitive software applications, deemed the first step toward making computers more people-literate, object-oriented programming, intended to more accurately model reality, and wireless communications are expected to play a significant role in future technological advancement
Darwin's Other Books: âRedâ and âTransmutationâ Notebooks, âSketch,â âEssay,â and Natural Selection
Study of Darwin's unpublished works, freely available on-line through the American Natural History Museum, reveals the origins of his thoughts on evolution
Downs and Acrosses: Textual Markup on a Stroke Based Level
Textual encoding is one of the main focuses of Humanities Computing. However, existing encoding schemes and initiatives focus on
'text' from the character level upwards, and are of little use to scholars, such as papyrologists and palaeographers, who study the constituent strokes of
individual characters. This paper discusses the development of a markup system used to annotate a corpus of images of Roman texts, resulting in an
XML representation of each character on a stroke by stroke basis. The XML data generated allows further interrogation of the palaeographic data, increasing
the knowledge available regarding the palaeography of the documentation produced by the Roman Army. Additionally, the corpus was used to train an
Artificial Intelligence system to effectively 'read' in stroke data of unknown text and output possible, reliable, interpretations of that text:
the next step in aiding historians in the reading of ancient texts. The development and implementation of the markup scheme is introduced, the results
of our initial encoding effort are presented, and it is demonstrated that textual markup on a stroke level can extend the remit of marked-up digital texts in the
humanities
Describing typeforms: a designer's response
The paper sets out an overview of a pragmatic research investigation initiated within a doctoral enquiry, and which continues to inform design practice and pedagogy. Located within the fields of typography and information design, and very much concerned with design history, enquiry emphasized exploration of alternative design research methodologies in the production of a design outcome loaded with pedagogical ambition.
The issue being addressed within the investigation was the limited scope of existing typeface classificatory systems to adequately describe the diversity of forms represented within current type design practice and thus, recent acquisitions to an established teaching collection in London.
Addressing this issue unexpectedly came to utilize the researcherâs own design practice as a methodology for managing emergent enquiry, and for organizing and generating new knowledge through the employment of visual information management methods.
A primary outcome of the enquiry was a new framework for the description of typeforms. This new framework will be described in terms of its operation, divergence from existing models and potential for application
Information scraps: how and why information eludes our personal information management tools
In this paper we describe information scraps -- a class of personal information whose content is scribbled on Post-it notes, scrawled on corners of random sheets of paper, buried inside the bodies of e-mail messages sent to ourselves, or typed haphazardly into text files. Information scraps hold our great ideas, sketches, notes, reminders, driving directions, and even our poetry. We define information scraps to be the body of personal information that is held outside of its natural or We have much still to learn about these loose forms of information capture. Why are they so often held outside of our traditional PIM locations and instead on Post-its or in text files? Why must we sometimes go around our traditional PIM applications to hold on to our scraps, such as by e-mailing ourselves? What are information scraps' role in the larger space of personal information management, and what do they uniquely offer that we find so appealing? If these unorganized bits truly indicate the failure of our PIM tools, how might we begin to build better tools? We have pursued these questions by undertaking a study of 27 knowledge workers. In our findings we describe information scraps from several angles: their content, their location, and the factors that lead to their use, which we identify as ease of capture, flexibility of content and organization, and avilability at the time of need. We also consider the personal emotive responses around scrap management. We present a set of design considerations that we have derived from the analysis of our study results. We present our work on an application platform, jourknow, to test some of these design and usability findings
A Survey and Content Analysis of Army Manuals Held by the National World War II Museum Archives
This study is a content analysis of a collection of several hundred Army manuals published by the War Department, the precursor of the United States Department of Defense (U.S. War Department, 2013). The manuals were in varying conditions, address a variety of topics, and were published in years surrounding and during World War II
Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Knowledge Organization WissOrg'17 of theGerman Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO),30th November - 1st December 2017, Freie UniversitÀt Berlin
Wissensorganisation is the name of a series of biennial conferences /
workshops with a long tradition, organized by the German chapter of the
International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO). The 15th conference in
this series, held at Freie UniversitÀt Berlin, focused on knowledge
organization for the digital humanities. Structuring, and interacting with,
large data collections has become a major issue in the digital humanities. In
these proceedings, various aspects of knowledge organization in the digital
humanities are discussed, and the authors of the papers show how projects in
the digital humanities deal with knowledge organization.Wissensorganisation ist der Name einer Konferenzreihe mit einer langjÀhrigen
Tradition, die von der Deutschen Sektion der International Society of
Knowledge Organization (ISKO) organisiert wird. Die 15. Konferenz dieser
Reihe, die an der Freien UniversitÀt Berlin stattfand, hatte ihren Schwerpunkt
im Bereich Wissensorganisation und Digital Humanities. Die Strukturierung von
und die Interaktion mit groĂen Datenmengen ist ein zentrales Thema in den
Digital Humanities. In diesem Konferenzband werden verschiedene Aspekte der
Wissensorganisation in den Digital Humanities diskutiert, und die Autoren der
einzelnen BeitrÀge zeigen, wie die Digital Humanities mit Wissensorganisation
umgehen
WRITING UTOPIA NOW: Utopian Poetics In The Work Of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
This thesis examines Theresa Hak Kyung Chaâs DICTEE (1982), Audience Distant Relative (1977) and ReveillĂ© dans la Brume (Awakened in the Mist) (1977). The premise of the thesis is an exploration of the various ways in which these works both
perform and gesture toward the possibility of a âutopianâ experience of nonalienation. In Chaâs vocabulary, this takes the form of âinterfusionâ and is related to the role of the artist as alchemist. Cha employs formal and linguistic innovations in her text, mail art and performance works to invite active participation from her readers and audience in a gesture toward embodied intersubjectivity. Her grappling with the challenges relating to the articulation of subjectivity place her work at the centre of contemporary critical debates around subjectivity and innovative poetics. In particular, recent scholarship on race and the poetic avant-garde has called for cross-disciplinary approaches to reading DICTEE as a text that explores the intersections of subjectivity and its performance in contemporary innovative poetics. Developing a theory of Utopian Poetics from my reading of Ernst Blochâs utopian philosophy, I explore the ways in which DICTEE and Chaâs other works perform a yearning for non-alienated subjectivity that remains necessarily open and incomplete.
My reading of DICTEE, in particular, is primarily informed by my own practices of yoga and meditation, and these practices form the basis of both my scholarly and creative engagements with this research. This scholarly thesis comprises Part 1 of a two-part submission. Part 2 comprises my own creative experiments with UtopianPoetics
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