Image and interpretation using artificial intelligence to read ancient Roman texts

Human IT

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-56

  Terras, Melissa ^a   Robertson, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVA AGENT ARCHITECTURE; INFORMATION FUSION; INK AND STYLUS TABLETS; LINGUISTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; INFRARED IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 21244472664     PISSN: 14021501     EISSN: 1402151X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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