Understanding Diagrams in Technical Documents

  • Authors:
  • Robert P. Futrelle;Ioannis A. Kakadiaris;Jeff Alexander;Catherine M. Carriero;Nikos Nikolakis;Joseph M. Futrelle

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

The development of a knowledge base of biological research papers that supports the Scientist's Assistant, an intelligent system that will provide a scientist with interactive access to the research results, methods, and reasoning in a collection of scientific papers, is discussed. The document understanding system uses graphics constraint grammars for describing and analyzing diagrams, spatial indexing in diagram analysis and understanding, and extension of natural-language processing techniques to complex scientific text. The graphics constraint grammars of the diagram-understanding system are described in detail. Example diagrams and grammars are presented.