Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition (Joint IAPR International Workshop, SSPR&SPR 2010, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey, August 18-20, 2010. Proceedings) edited by: Edwin R. Hancock, Richard C. Wilson, Terry Windeatt, Ilkay Ulusoy, and, Francisco Escolano.
Pattern recognition is a first step towards assisting users in the subject recognition process that results in a topic map.
Content-Based Tile Retrieval System by Pavel Vácha and Michal Haindl, surprised me because it was about matching colors/patterns on ceramic tiles.
I was expecting a paper on tiling of an identity plane but it was just as delightful. Anyone who has ever shopped for paint or tile, particularly with one’s spouse, ;-), can understand the importance of color/pattern matching.
This paper is a good illustration of how pattern matching can be used to assist users, albeit, not in a topic map context. Its application to the construction of a topic map would be just one step further.
Developers of topic map applications targeting real world data will find a number of insights and techniques in this collection of papers.