Spanish-speaking children learn to read words printed in a relatively transparent orthography. Variation in orthographic transparency may shape the architecture of the reading system and also the manifestation of reading difficulties. We tested normally developing children and children diagnosed with reading difficulties. Reading accuracy was high across experimental conditions. However, dyslex...

Written language is an evolutionarily recent human invention; consequently, its neural substrates cannot be determined by the genetic code. How, then, does the brain incorporate skills of this type? One possibility is that written language is dependent on evolutionarily older skills, such as spoken language; another is that dedicated substrates develop with expertise. If written language does d...

This work introduces an efficient classification pipeline, which provides an accurate semantic interpretation of urban environments by using redundant scene observations. The image-based method integrates both appearance and height data to classify single aerial images. Given the initial classification of highly overlapping images, a projection to a common orthographic 3D world coordinate syste...

We present a named entity recognition and classification system that uses only probabilistic character-level features. Classifications by multiple orthographic tries are combined in a hidden Markov model framework to incorporate both internal and contextual evidence. As part of the system, we perform a preprocessing stage in which capitalisation is restored to sentence-initial and all-caps word...

This article presents the problem of diacritic restoration (or diacritization) in the context of spell-checking, with the focus on an orthographically rich language such as Spanish. We argue that despite the large volume of work published on the topic of diacritization, currently available spell-checking tools have still not found a proper solution to the problem in those cases where both forms...

Image sequences capturing Hurricane Luis through meteorological satellites (GOES-8 and GOES-9) are used to estimate hurricane-top heights (structure) and hurricane winds (motion). This problem is diicult not only due to the absence of correspondences but also due to the lack of depth cues in the 2D hurricane images (scaled orthographic projection). In this paper, we present a structure and moti...

Development of the computer aided animation system was begun in the winter of 1910. The system was designed to produce visual aid materials tor Engineering Graphics, such as orthographic and perspective projection, dihedral angles, piercing-points, etc. It was thus required that a user be able to input objects precisely and to manipulate them with translations, rotations, foldouts etc. in 3-D s...

The influence of orthographic transparency on the prevalence of dyslexia subtypes was examined in a review of multiple-case studies conducted in languages differing in orthographic depth (English, French and Spanish). Cross-language differences are found in the proportion of dissociated profiles as a function of the dependent variables (speed or accuracy), the classification method (classical v...