In this work a script independent handwriting recognition system is proposed which is derived from the RWTH-ASR hidden Markov model (HMM) based speech recognizer. Most problems occurring in handwriting recognition (HWR) are induced by large variations within the written text. In particular, different handwriting styles such as cursive writing or long drawn-out strokes are difficult to model. Co...

Educational discourse is an important area for impact, which is especially timely given recent attention given to online education. In this talk I will first present a theoretical account of the complex interplay between written or oral discourse, individual cognitive processes, and external guidance in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments. Based on the Script Theory of...

Lontar is a traditional Balinese manuscript with script in it. manuscripts can be more than 100 years old. The age factor of the has an impact on that been written 10 tends to darker. This makes not visible well, and this affects image quality manuscript. thing becomes main issue research, detection images. first all processing using edge detection, canny Sobel algorithm process. After processi...

Jawi script is Arabic/hijaiyah letters with 6 additional as local modifications which -when read or pronounced- form Malay words/sentences. This proof of the influence Islam in archipelago. study historical research employing literature analysis examining collection within digital library provided by Endangered Archives Program (EAP) Riau manuscripts: The Gateway to Intellectual World (EAP153)....

This study investigates linguistic and scriptal variation in notary signatures found late antique contracts from Egypt, seeking to identify interpret the potential relationship between choices language script. To answer this, theoretical concepts methods sociolinguistics, social semiotics, multilingual studies are used, with objective of adding a new, more linguistically-oriented perspective ex...

The contribution of orthographic and phonological codes to written production remains controversial. We report results using a picture-word interference task in which participants were asked to write (Experiments 1 and 2) or to speak (Experiment 3) the names of pictures while trying to ignore visual distractors, and the interval between the target and distractor onset was varied. Distractors we...

Recently work on the grammar of spoken English has advanced through the use of large, general, and varied corpora of the language, including corpora of spoken discourse. Here I review the research that has been emerging from the availability of such corpora, much of it emphasizing the need for new ways of conceptualizing spoken grammar, to replace the traditional reliance on grammatical models ...

Language plays an important role in social communication between speakers and listeners. Through language, opinions, thoughts, ideas can be easily expressed understood by others. In communicative interactions, speech acts play a crucial as they involve actions within the communication. However, listeners often face difficulties understanding context of conversation. One aspect is illocutionary ...