The Gene Expression Database (GXD) is a comprehensive online database within the Mouse Genome Informatics resource, aiming to provide available information about endogenous gene expression during mouse development. The information stems primarily from many thousands of biomedical publications that database curators must go through and read. Given the very large number of biomedical papers publi...

Document images produced by scanner or digital camera, usually suffer from geometric and photometric distortions. Both of them deteriorate the performance of OCR systems. In this paper, we present a novel method to compensate for undesirable geometric distortions aiming to improve OCR results. Our methodology is based on finding text lines by dynamic local connectivity map and then applying a l...

Standardized approaches to relevance classification in information retrieval use generative statistical models identify the presence or absence of certain topics that might make a document relevant searcher. These have been used better predict on basis what is “about”, rather than simple-minded analysis bag words contained within document. In more recent times, this idea has extended by using p...

The document understanding problem can be informally defined as the automatic extraction of meaning from documents. In the Intelligent Sensory Information Systems group we have experimented with analyzing the visual appearance of documents in order to extract meaning. That is, we concentrate on how documents look, rather than on what they say. We motivate this approach with several applications...