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Yor\`ub\'a is a widely spoken West African language with a writing system rich in orthographic and tonal diacritics. They provide morphological information, are crucial for lexical disambiguation, pronunciation and are vital for any…

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Tunisian Arabic (ISO 693-3: aeb) isa distinct variety native to Tunisia, derived from Arabic and enriched by various historical influences. This research introduces the "Normalized Orthography for Tunisian Arabic" (NOTA), an adaptation of…

The Japanese writing system is complex, with three character types of Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Kanji consists of thousands of unique characters, further adding to the complexity of character identification and literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Angel I. Solis , Justin Zarkovacki , John Ly , Adham Atyabi

Handwritten characters can be trickier to classify due to their complex and cursive nature compared to simple and non-cursive characters. We present an external classifier along with a Generative Adversarial Network that can classify highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 S M Rafiuddin

Due to the omnipresence of mobile devices, online handwritten scripts have become the most important feeding input to smartphones and tablet devices. To increase online handwriting recognition performance, deeper neural networks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Hanen Akouaydi , Sourour Njah , Wael Ouarda , Anis Samet , Thameur Dhieb , Mourad Zaied , Adel M. Alimi

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, revolutionizing human-computer interactions. While major languages have benefited from these developments, lesser-resourced languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Muhammad Sharif , Zeeshan Abbas , Jiangyan Yi , Chenglin Liu

In this paper, we address the task of Optical Character Recognition(OCR) for the Telugu script. We present an end-to-end framework that segments the text image, classifies the characters and extracts lines using a language model. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-16 Rakesh Achanta , Trevor Hastie

I propose a state of the art deep neural architectural solution for handwritten character recognition for Bengali alphabets, compound characters as well as numerical digits that achieves state-of-the-art accuracy 96.8% in just 11 epochs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Akash Roy

Named Entity Recognition NER is very crucial for various natural language processing applications, including information extraction, machine translation, and sentiment analysis. Despite the ever-increasing interest in African languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 S. E Emedem , I. E Onyenwe , E. G Onyedinma

Handwritten text recognition is an active research area in the field of deep learning and artificial intelligence to convert handwritten text into machine-understandable. A lot of work has been done for other languages, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Muhammad Kashif

In this paper, results of an experimental study of a deep convolution neural network architecture which can classify different handwritten digits using EBLearn library are reported. The purpose of this neural network is to classify input…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Karim M. Mahmoud

Many Nigerian languages have relinquished their previous prestige and purpose in modern society to English and Nigerian Pidgin. For the millions of L1 speakers of indigenous languages, there are inequalities that manifest themselves as…

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Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) is an essential communication method for individuals in the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community. However, existing recognition systems face significant challenges due to their reliance on single sensor approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ghadeer Alanazi , Abir Benabid

Handwritten character recognition is one of the most challenging and ongoing areas of research in the field of pattern recognition. HCR research is matured for foreign languages like Chinese and Japanese but the problem is much more complex…

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Recently, recognition of handwritten Bengali letters and digits have captured a lot of attention among the researchers of the AI community. In this work, we propose a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based object detection model which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Md Nafee Al Islam , Siamul Karim Khan

Doctors typically write in incomprehensible handwriting, making it difficult for both the general public and some pharmacists to understand the medications they have prescribed. It is not ideal for them to write the prescription quietly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Pavithiran G , Sharan Padmanabhan , Nuvvuru Divya , Aswathy V , Irene Jerusha P , Chandar B

Most of the methods on handwritten recognition in the literature are focused and evaluated on Black and White (BW) image databases. In this paper we try to answer a fundamental question in document recognition. Using Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Abbas Zohrevand , Zahra Imani , Javad Sadri , Ching Y. Suen

In recent years, with the advent of highly scalable artificial-neural-network-based text representation methods the field of natural language processing has seen unprecedented growth and sophistication. It has become possible to distill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Philipp Siebers , Christian Janiesch , Patrick Zschech

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is still a challenging problem because it must deal with two important difficulties: the variability among writing styles, and the scarcity of labelled data. To alleviate such problems, synthetic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Lei Kang , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Pau Riba , Mauricio Villegas

Scholars in the humanities rely heavily on ancient manuscripts to study history, religion, and socio-political structures in the past. Many efforts have been devoted to digitizing these precious manuscripts using OCR technology, but most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Queenie Luo , Yung-Sung Chuang