IRANO — SLAVICA: HISTORICAL-WORD-BUILDING PARALLELS

Word frequency and key word statistics in historical corpus linguistics

Retrieval of historical documents by word spotting

The implementation of word spotting is not an easy procedure and it gets even worse in the case of historical documents since it requires character recognition and indexing of the document images. A general technique for word spotting is presented, independent of OCR, using automatic representation of the text queries of the user by word images and comparing them with the word images extracted ...

Features for Word Spotting in Historical Manuscripts

For the transition from traditional to digital libraries, the large number of handwritten manuscripts that exist pose a great challenge. Easy access to such collections requires an index, which is currently created manually at great cost. Because automatic handwriting recognizers fail on historical manuscripts, the word spotting technique has been developed: the words in a collection are matche...

Schemata-Building Role of Teaching Word History in Developing Reading Comprehension Ability

Methodologically, vocabulary instruction has faced significant ups and downs during the history of language education; sometimes integrated with the other elements of language network, other times tackled as a separate component. Among many variables supposedly affecting vocabulary achievement, the role of teaching word history, as a schemata-building strategy, in developing reading comprehensi...

Building a Word Segmenter for Sanskrit Overnight

There is abundance of digitised texts available in Sanskrit. However, the word segmentation task in such texts are challenging due to the issue of Sandhi. In Sandhi, words in a sentence often fuse together to form a single chunk of text, where the word delimiter vanishes and sounds at the word boundaries undergo transformations, which is also reflected in the written text. Here, we propose an a...