ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Notes on French and English Demonstratives

English sentences such as: (1) John appreciates that book. (2) John appreciates this book. can both be translated into French as: (3) Jean apprécie ce livre. (‘Jean appreciates ce book’) so that ce seems neutral between that and this. To express the English distinction, French adds -là or ci: (4) Jean apprécie ce livre-là. (‘Jean appreciates ce book-there’) (5) Jean apprécie ce livre-ci. (‘Jean...

Rule-based cleanup of on-line English ink notes

Recently, many pen-based devices have enabled people to input digital ink naturally. Often, there is smear and correction when writing. This not only makes the document dirty and look unpleasant, but also affects the handwriting recognition when recognition is called for. As the first paper to address the ink cleanup problem, we present our ink cleanup system that removes the smear and correcti...

2007 HSC Notes from the Marking Centre - English Extension 2

Topographical amnesia.

The ability to learn to criterion a visually-guided stylus maze was found impaired in patients with right posterior cerebral damage, not only in comparison with controls but also with other hemisphere-damaged groups. The contribution of the corresponding left sided area to this task is dubious, and certainly not substantial. This finding points to the independent organisation of long-term spati...

LeviTABLE: Electromagnetic Topographical Display

This paper describes the design of LeviTABLE, an electromagnetic controlled topographical display device. The electromagnets control the movement and displacement of an array of vertical rods. The height of these rods represents individual points of elevation in a landscape. We describe the iterative design and implementation of LeviTABLE, discuss design issues and suggest further research dire...