We present in this paper an automatic system of handwritten isolated Arabic characters recognition. It is based on a pretopological approach. The approach is based on a criterion constructed from a pretopological pseudo-distance that allows to measure the degree of dissimilarity between the characters. On a database of 6188 handwritten isolated Arabic characters, the experimental results show t...

This paper considers the problem of learning Chinese word embeddings. In contrast to English, a Chinese word is usually composed of characters, and most of the characters themselves can be further divided into components such as radicals. While characters and radicals contain rich information and are capable of indicating semantic meanings of words, they have not been fully exploited by existin...

Grammosciadium pterocarpum subsp. bilgilii and Grammosciadium pterocarpum subsp. sivasicum from Turkey are herein described as two new subspecies, and the species Grammosciadium schischkinii is synonymied under Grammosciadium pterocarpum subsp. pterocarpum. Quantitative variation of morphological and anatomical characters have been analysed to provide discriminative characters between the taxa ...