Handwriting and Gender: A multi-use data set

Data set for Tifinagh handwriting character recognition

The Tifinagh alphabet-IRCAM is the official alphabet of the Amazigh language widely used in North Africa [1]. It includes thirty-one basic letter and two letters each composed of a base letter followed by the sign of labialization. Normalized only in 2003 (Unicode) [2], ICRAM-Tifinagh is a young character repertoire. Which needs more work on all levels. In this context we propose a data set for...

Gender Prediction from Handwriting

We employ one of the challenges of The Twelfth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013). Predict if a handwritten document has been produced by a male or a female writer. The detail can be found at http://handwriting. qu.edu.qa/icdar-2013-competitions/ gender-prediction/. Besides being an interesting research topic of its own, automatically identifying subcateg...

Use of Multi-category Proximal SVM for Data Set Reduction

In this paper we describe a method for data set reduction by effective use of Multi-category Proximal Support Vector Machine (MPSVM). By using the Linear MPSVM Formulation in an iterative manner we identify the outliers in the data set and eliminate them. A k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) classifier is able to classify points using this reduced data set without significant loss of accuracy. We presen...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

A minimum data set for chronic venous disease