Most existing scene text detectors focus on detecting characters or words that only capture partial messages due to missing contextual information. For a better understanding of in scenes, it is more desired detect blocks (CTBs) which consist one multiple integral units (e.g., characters, words, phrases) natural reading order and transmit certain complete messages. This paper presents detection...

This paper examines several ways to extract timely economic signals from newspaper text and shows that such information can materially improve forecasts of macroeconomic variables including GDP, inflation unemployment. Our is drawn three popular UK newspapers collectively represent readership in terms political perspective editorial style. Exploiting both unconditionally when conditioning on ot...

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