Understanding a block of handwritten text means mapping it into a semantic representation, We describe an approach to reading a I>lock of handwritten text when there arc certain loose constraints placed on the spatial layout and syntax 01 the tnt. Early recognition of primitives guides the location of syntactic components. A system to read handwritten postal addresses is described as an instanc...

Dear Sir, Having recently completed the data interpretation of a postal questionnaire of 'all' Otolaryngologists in the British Isles, we read with interest the recent correspondence on the subject of the accuracy of this means of gathering information. (November 1989, 1103), and of the validity of the numbers questioned and responding. Like the correspondents, we also had great difficulty in c...

This paper quantifies the extent to which the shift in the aggregate household-level demand for postal delivery services can be attributed to the appearance of alternative modes of communication versus the concomitant rise in postal prices. We find that both recent postal price increases and the penetration of personal computer technology among US households led to similar reductions in postal ...

The US Postal Service is running a large deficit due to dropping demand for first-class mail services; Twitter is a popular social networking site with no current way to monetize fully its user-generated content; and the computer industry always needs new demand for its storage, networking, and imaging products. Prior work has ignored the possibility of solving all of these problems with one me...

This paper presents FuMaS (Fuzzy Matching System), a system capable of an efficient retrieval of postal addresses from noisy queries. The fuzzy postal addresses retrieval has many possible applications, ranging from datawarehouse dedumping, to the correction of input forms, or the integration within online street directories, etc. This paper presents the system architecture along with a series ...