The subject of character & handwriting recognition has a great potential in data and has received considerable attention in recent years. Several methods for recognition of Latin, Chinese, and Arabic etc. scripts have been proposed. Among Indian script, some pioneering work has been done on Bengali, Devnagiri, Oriya, Telugu, Urdu scripts and OCR systems for this script are ready for commerciali...

Machine transliteration refers to the process of automatic conversion of a word from one language to another without losing its phonological characteristics. In this work, we present our experiments performed in subtask-1 and subtask-2 as a part of the FIRE-2013 transliterated search task. In both the subtasks, the transliteration from Roman script to Devanagari script was performed using sylla...

background: chronic illnesses are by definition long lasting and without a definitive cure. in iran, like in many other developing countries, chronic diseases are not merely diseases of the elderly. they also affect a much higher proportion of people during their prime working years and more so than in the developed countries. therefore, it is essential to understand the factors influencing the...

The problem of offline to online script conversion is a challenging and an ill-posed problem. The interest in offline to online conversion exists because there are a plethora of robust algorithms in online script literature which can not be used on offline scripts. In this paper, we propose a method, based on heuristics, to extract online script information from offline bitmap image. We show th...

People develop knowledge of interpersonal interaction patterns (e.g., prototypes and schemas), which shape how they process incoming information. One such knowledge structure based on attachment theory was examined: the secure base script (the prototypic sequence of events when an attachment figure comforts a close relationship partner in distress). In two studies (N = 53 and N = 119), particip...