TY - GEN
T1 - Search interface to a Mayan glyph database based on visual characteristics
AU - Sidorov, Grigori
AU - Pichardo-Lagunas, Obdulia
AU - Chanona-Hernandez, Liliana
N1 - Funding Information:
Work done under partial support of Mexican Government (CONACYT projects 50206-H and 83270, SNI) and National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico (projects SIP 20080787, 20091587 and 20090772; COFAA, PIFI).
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - During years, the community of Mayan researchers was not open to the usage of computer tools. Still, the progress of the computer science and the current state of Mayan research proves the necessity of this type of software. We present the project related to the development of Mayan script database, which is the first necessary step in development of computer representation of Mayan script data. The database contains several tables and allows for various queries. The main idea of the project is the development of the system that would allow managing Mayan script data for specialists and as well for persons without any previous knowledge of Maya. The system includes structural visual description of glyph images and search facilities based on the structural description, along with traditional database search facilities. The user can define any set of visual characteristics. The glyphs are characterized using a "naive" feature set. Fully working prototype is presented. Preliminary evaluation of the efficiency is carried out. In fact, the system can be applied to any set of images that can be assigned structural features.
AB - During years, the community of Mayan researchers was not open to the usage of computer tools. Still, the progress of the computer science and the current state of Mayan research proves the necessity of this type of software. We present the project related to the development of Mayan script database, which is the first necessary step in development of computer representation of Mayan script data. The database contains several tables and allows for various queries. The main idea of the project is the development of the system that would allow managing Mayan script data for specialists and as well for persons without any previous knowledge of Maya. The system includes structural visual description of glyph images and search facilities based on the structural description, along with traditional database search facilities. The user can define any set of visual characteristics. The glyphs are characterized using a "naive" feature set. Fully working prototype is presented. Preliminary evaluation of the efficiency is carried out. In fact, the system can be applied to any set of images that can be assigned structural features.
KW - Mayan glyph database
KW - Search interface
KW - Visual structural description
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78651237258&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-12550-8_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-12550-8_18
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
SN - 3642125492
SN - 9783642125492
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 222
EP - 229
BT - Natural Language Processing and Information Systems - 14th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2009, Revised Papers
T2 - 14th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2009
Y2 - 24 June 2009 through 26 June 2009
ER -