In this chapter, we keep focusing on on-line writer independent cursive character recognition engine. In what follows, we explain the importance of on-line handwriting recognition over off-line, the necessity of writer independent system and the importance as well as scope of cursive scripts like Devanagari. Devanagari is considered as one of the known cursive scripts [20, 29]. However, we aim ...

D-scripts model is originally developed for description of affective (emotional) mass media texts and with extension also applies to emotional speech synthesis. In this model we distinguish units for “rational” inference (r-scripts) and units for “emotional” processing of meaning (d-scripts). Basing on a psycholinguistics study we demonstrate relations between classes of emotional utterances in...

Command-line interfaces are heavily used by system administrators to manage computer systems. Tasks performed at a command line may often be repetitive, leading to a desire for automation. However, the critical nature of system administration suggests that humans also need to supervise an automated system’s behavior. This paper presents a programming by demonstration approach to capturing repet...