Calligraphy or Linguistics?

Introduction to Arabic Calligraphy

Identifying dialogue acts: linguistics or statistics?

At some point in their processing, natural language dialogue systems typically perform some pragmatic analysis to compute the dialogue act (or speech act, dialogue move, illo-cution, etc.) underlying an utterance. The Verbmobil system, despite the fact that it is not engaged in the dialogue but only mediates it, is no exception. At present, both symbolic reasoning and statistical recognition ar...

Style comparisons in calligraphy

Calligraphic style is considered, for this research, visual attributes of images of calligraphic characters sampled randomly from a “work” created by a single artist. It is independent of page layout or textual content. An experimental design is developed to investigate to what extent the source of a single, or of a few pairs, of character images can be assigned to the either same work or to tw...

Automatic Artistic Calligraphy Generation

We introduce a novel intelligent system which can generate new Chinese calligraphic artwork that meets certain aesthetic requirements automatically. In the machine learning phase, parametric representations of the existent calligraphic artwork are derived from input images of calligraphy. Using a six-layer hierarchical representation, the acquired knowledge is organized as a small structural st...

Style Consistent Calligraphy Tablet Design

A style-consistent calligraphy tablet designing approach is proposed in this paper. The layout of the tablet is calculated firstly. The calligraphy characters are retrieved from the ones written by the specific calligrapher, while the style-consistency calligraphy character synthesis approach is applied to synthesize the non-existent ones. Finally, these characters are adjusted so that their st...