Visual readability analysis: How to make your writings easier to read

VAST 10 - IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2010, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 123-130

  Oelke, Daniela ^a   Spretke, David ^a   Stoffel, Andreas ^a   Keim, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Document analysis; Feature evaluation and selection; I.5.2 pattern recognition : Design methodology; I.7.5 document and text processing : Document capture

Indexed keywords

CASE-STUDIES; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING; FEATURE EVALUATION AND SELECTION; I.5.2 [PATTERN RECOGNITION]: DESIGN METHODOLOGY; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; TEXT PROCESSING; VISUALIZATION; WORD PROCESSING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 78650942888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VAST.2010.5652926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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