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This article presents a general framework for automatic conversion of a piece of text into a diagram that is described in the given text. Such kind of text is often found in many branches of Science & Engineering. Secondary school-level geometric problems are considered as a reference in this study. A knowledge base or lexical resource named GeometryNet is used in interpreting geometric meaning of a given text to draw the corresponding diagram.
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Mukherjee, A., Garain, U. (2008). Automatic Diagram Drawing Based on Natural Language Text Understanding. In: Stapleton, G., Howse, J., Lee, J. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87730-1_47
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