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A Logical Investigation on Global Reading of Diagrams

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2012)

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We call the extraction of higher-level information from diagrams “global reading,” and investigate it from the viewpoint of logic.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. College of Commerce, Nihon University, Japan

    Ryo Takemura

  2. Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University, Japan

    Atsushi Shimojima

  3. Department of Complex and Intelligent Systems, Future University Hakodate, Japan

    Yasuhiro Katagiri

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  1. Ryo Takemura
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  1. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, B3H 1W4, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Philip Cox

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Private bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand

    Beryl Plimmer

  3. School of Computing, Unviersity of Kent, CT2 7NF, Canterbury, UK

    Peter Rodgers

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Takemura, R., Shimojima, A., Katagiri, Y. (2012). A Logical Investigation on Global Reading of Diagrams. In: Cox, P., Plimmer, B., Rodgers, P. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7352. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31223-6_42

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