Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:11:44 +0000

From: Lambert Schomaker 

To: tc-11

Subject: title issue / food for thought



Dear TC-11 community,



below is a summarized inventory of reactions (thank you). 

Food for thought over the weekend!



Best regards,

Lambert Schomaker



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Reaction #1



Why not consider the ICDAR, IJDAR convention:  



            "TC-11:  Document Analysis and Recognition"

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Reaction #2



To keep with the very sensible definition you have:

> [INPUT: pixels or planar coordinates]==>[OUTPUT: text and layout

> interpretation]

I would suggest 



           "TC-11: Text Image Processing" (without the qualifier) 

           

because the mention of "Text" sets us apart from TC-10 and the 

mention of "Image" sets us apart from those whose input is ascii. 

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(LS: Although these two proposals are reasonable, a comment on #1

and #2 is that the wording stresses the traditional OCR approach and

underexposes the growing field of pen-based/hand-held applications, 

the areas of license plate  recognition, signature verification, 

text recognition in streaming video and other innovations in 

machine-based reading. A term like 'Reading', on the other hand,

is more general.)



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Reaction #3



            "TC-11: Formatted text interpretation?"

            "TC-11: Text-image analysis?"

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Reaction #4



"TC-11: Theory and Applications in Text Processing" seems good to me.

            

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Reaction #5



  "TC-11: Reading Systems"      is my favorite.

  

... Reading is exactly what we intend to do. This word covers the

Signal Processing approach ...(upto)... the simulation of human

tasks. (...) With this name, the relationship between signal and

image processing and the new technologies of communication is

obvious. Converting a paper document into  XML is no more an

application but a natural goal for the research. 



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Reaction #6



....you raise the worry that TC-11 research areas may be confused

with those of (Computational) Linguistics and/or Information

Retrieval (or Data Mining). With "Text Processing" in the title,

this is indeed possible. So, why not choose:



   "TC-11: Theory and Applications of (Machine) Reading Systems" 



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Reaction #7



I would go with: "TC-11: Reading Systems"



Indeed, Reading encompasses all PR trends from computer science

to cognitive fields using statistical methods,

structural/syntactical methods, connectionist models, stochastic

approaches, reading models from perception, etc. (...)  I think

theory is a must to produce a solid basis to our practical

problems.  Applications will certainly drive theory. The former

word will attract and consolidate our role as per technology

transfer to industry. Following this line, I would suggest:



          "TC-11: Reading Systems: Theory & Applications"

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