S. Satoh et al., DRAWING UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM INCORPORATING RULE GENERATION SUPPORT WITH MAN-MACHINE INTERACTIONS, IEICE transactions on information and systems, E77D(7), 1994, pp. 735-742
The present study describes using the state transition type of drawing
understanding framework to construct a multi-purpose drawing understa
nding system. This new system employs an understanding process that co
mplies with the understanding rules, which are easily obtained by the
user. The same set of user-provided rules must be used for the same ty
pe of target drawings, but for slightly different ones, fine tuning is
required to obtain understanding rules. To overcome this inherent dra
wback in constructing drawing understanding systems, we extended the s
ystem using a newly constructed understanding rule generating support
system. The resultant integrated system is based on a man-machine coop
eration type interface, and can automatically generate rules from user
-provided simple interactions using a graphical user interface (GUI).
To obtain efficient rule generation, the system employs an inductive i
nference method as a learning algorithm. Map-drawing experiments were
successfully carried out, and an evaluation based on a rule learning e
rror criterion subsequently revealed an efficient rule generation proc
ess.