Pictorial representation of text : converting text to pictures
'A picture is worth a thousand words.' This saying suggests that an inter-relationship exists between text and pictures. This thesis is the result of an investigation to identify and exploit the inter-relationships between text and pictures. It describes a concept of pictorial representation of text, presents a Text-to-Pictures System which generates a pictorial representation of English sentences, and gives a more detailed look at how the system pictorially represents specific linguistic types of natural language expressions. Although very little previous work has been done in this area, the relevant work in <i>text-pictures systems</i> is summarized. Most of the past work concentrated on pictorially representing the nouns and some spatial prepositions. My work expands the pictorial representation to include temporal expressions, conjunction, relative clauses, quantification, and some verb features. This thesis also addresses the concepts of using pictorial representation for data fusion of large natural language texts, as well as the problems of ambiguity and vagueness. The working system to 'convert text to pictures' is demonstrated. The system structure, intermediate representation schemes, and the translation
Ludlow, Nelson David
Pictorial representation of text : converting text to pictures. 'A picture is worth a thousand words.' This saying suggests that an inter-relationship exists between text and pictures. This thesis is the result of an investigation to identify and exploit the inter-relationships between text and pictures. It describes a concept of pictorial representation of text, presents a Text-to-Pictures System which generates a pictorial representation of English sentences, and gives a more detailed look at how the system pictorially represents specific linguistic types of natural language expressions. Although very little previous work has been done in this area, the relevant work in <i>text-pictures systems</i> is summarized. Most of the past work concentrated on pictorially representing the nouns and some spatial prepositions. My work expands the pictorial representation to include temporal expressions, conjunction, relative clauses, quantification, and some verb features. This thesis also addresses the concepts of using pictorial representation for data fusion of large natural language texts, as well as the problems of ambiguity and vagueness. The working system to 'convert text to pictures' is demonstrated. The system structure, intermediate representation schemes, and the translation
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