Linguistic similarity is multi-faceted. For instance, two words may be similar with respect to semantics, syntax, or morphology inter alia. Continuous word-embeddings have been shown to capture most of these shades of similarity to some degree. This work considers guiding word-embeddings with morphologically annotated data, a form of semisupervised learning, encouraging the vectors to encode a ...

This work describes a new algorithm for segmentation of handwritten cursive words, based on the following two hypothesis: 1) there exists natural segmentation points (SPs) corresponding to disconnected characters; and 2) the physical SPs between connected characters are located in ligatures. The morphological operations of opening and closing are utilized in the determination of word ligatures....