This study attempts to pinpoint the factors that restrict reliable word sense annotation, focusing on the influence of the number of senses annotators use and the semantic granularity of those senses. Both of these factors may be possible causes of low interannotator agreement (ITA) when tagging with fine-grained word senses, and, consequently, low WSD system performance (Ng et al., 1999; Snyde...

An alf&ithm for the recognition of unconstrained handwritten words is proposed. Based on an analysis of writing styles, it is shown that techniques for isolated character recognition. segmentation. as welJ as cursive script recognition are needed to achieve a robust solution to handwritten word recognition. A combination of these algorithms is proposed in which each method outputs a ranking of ...

s is about 0.0015 while in titles it is near 0.0006. From 1980 on, the proportion of mistakes in abstracts is about 0.0002 while in titles it is less than 0.0001. As often as abstracts are reviewed for mistakes, the title of a paper is considered even more. The drop in the proportion of misspelled words in the early 1980s coincides with the widespread adoption of word processors and personal co...

Word spotting is to make searchable unindexed image documents by locating word/words in a doc-ument image, given a query word. This problem is challenging, mainly due to the large numberof word classes with very small inter-class and substantial intra-class distances. In this paper, asegmentation-based word spotting method is presented for multi-writer Persian handwritten doc-...

Objectives: Stuttering is one of the most prevalent speech and language disorders. Symptomology of stuttering has been surveyed from different aspects such as biological, developmental, environmental, emotional, learning and linguistic. Previous researches in English-speaking people have suggested that some linguistic features such as word meanings may play a role in the frequency of speech non...