Background The role of morphological awareness for literacy development is non-controversial, but it likely to depend on the characteristics a specific orthography. Previous studies analysing are mainly based English samples; thus, unclear how generalisable these results are. In current study, we evaluated predictive pattern reading and spelling in German, which characterised by high consistenc...

The construction of pronunciation dictionaries relies on high-quality and extensive training data in data-driven way. However, the manual annotation corpus for this purpose is both costly time consuming, especially low-resource languages that lack sufficient resources. A multilingual dictionary includes some common phonemes or phonetic units, which means these units have similarities different ...

Latin has historically led the state-of-the-art in handwritten optical character recognition (OCR) research. Adapting existing systems from to alpha-syllabary languages is particularly challenging due a sharp contrast between their orthographies. Due cursive writing system and frequent use of diacritics, segmentation and/or alignment graphical constituents with corresponding characters becomes ...

Grapheme-color synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon where single graphemes (e.g., the letter "E") induce simultaneous sensations of colors (e.g., the color green) that were not objectively shown. Current models disagree as to whether the color sensations arise from increased short-range connectivity between anatomically adjacent grapheme- and color-processing brain structures or from decrease...

This paper presents a new strategy for selecting classes of symbols from classes of graphemes in HMM-based handwritten word recognition from Brazilian legal amounts. This paper discusses features, graphemes and symbols, as our baseline system is based on a global approach in which the explicit segmentation of words into letters or pseudo-letters is avoided and HMM models are used. For this fram...

The most commonly used method for formally assessing grapheme-colour synaesthesia (i.e., experiencing colours in response to letter and/or number stimuli) involves selecting colours from a large colour palette on several occasions and measuring consistency of the colours selected. However, the ability to diagnose synaesthesia using this method depends on several factors that have not been direc...