Handwriting – A Forgotten Language Skill?

Reading Skill and Language Skill

To learn to read is to acquire a visual language skill that systematically maps onto extant spoken language skills. Some children perform this task quite adeptly, while others encounter much difficulty, and it has become a question of both scientific and practical merit to ask why there exists such a range of success in learning to read. Obviously, learning to read places a complex burden on ma...

Fuzzy handwriting description language: : FOHDEL

In this paper we present a new fuzzy language } FOHDEL } for the syntactic description of handwritten symbols. The presented language incorporates the fuzzy logic techniques to describe the syntactic relations of the semantic features extracted from a symbol pattern. A FOHDEL rule-base represents the compact feature information extracted from a small number of character prototypes and covers va...

Analyzing Coordinate Relations in Handwriting Activity: Tacit Skill and Individuality

Live Handwriting Recognition Using Language Semantics

We depart from the norm by not using prior data about the absolute shapes of characters, nor comparing a user’s input to previous samples of handwriting from that user or any other user. We have the user input a sentence of glyphs and spaces S = {G1, G2, . . . , Gm} that represents some natural language phrase (usually 10-15 words). Given that the user is writing with alphabet A in language L, ...

Continuous Chinese Handwriting Recognition with Language Model

In this paper, we proposed a method to recognize the handwriting of several Chinese characters or even a full sentence simultaneously. With a common single Chinese character recognition engine and a language model, the whole recognition process is divided into two optimization processes. The first is to find the best grouping scheme to segment a plurality of written strokes into characters, and...