This is very impressive, Fabiana and Antonio Carlos! I was
skeptical when Antonio Carlos first mentioned the idea to me in London,
but I didn't realize he was thinking of standardized handwriting a la
Graffiti/Palm. I'm interested to see how it works with a larger symbol
set, including the other symbols like the facial symbols and curved
arrows, and how you plan to handle rotation around various axes.
I have a question about the symbol described as "Dedo Indicador
com o Punho Fechado." My translation of this is "Index Finger with the
Fist Closed." But there's also another symbol that's simply described as
"Dedo Indicador," and it looks like the same symbol with a different
orientation. The standardized handwriting for the two seems almost
completely different.
The other question I have is simply: What's the difference
between the two columns labeled "Escrita"? Are they two sets of possible
standard handwritings?
You haven't gotten me to give up my keyboards yet, but it's very
interesting...
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa wrote:
> Valerie,
>
> Please, take a look at
>
> https://atlas.ucpel.tche.br/~fabinha
>
> Handwriting recognition by computers seems to have evolved
> to a trade off situation: computers are not able to recognize
> fully free handwritten texts, but there are many programs that
> are able to recognize free texts written with "standardized"
> hand movements (that is the principle used in Palm computers).
>
> The page shows a few exercises done by Fabiana, a student
> working with me, in the direction of getting a "standardized"
> way of moving the hand in writing SignWriting shorthand.
>
> She took a page of Valerie's book on SW shorthand and designed
> the ways of writing signs so that a computer program could
> recognize it. The signs are input by free hand, using a tablet
> and an electronic pen. The demo program that comes with the tablet
> allows the definition of 12 symbols at a time.
>
> Fabiana was able to define all the symbols and make the
> program recognize them.
>
> Fabiana's work shows the way I feel is the best one to allow
> fast input of SW symbols: not typing, but writing them, in the
> shorthand format, as they would be written on paper.
>
> Any comment or suggestion about the work will be highly
> welcome! Send email to me or to Fabiana herself:
>
> ).
>
> All the best,
>
> Antônio Carlos
>
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-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
Linguistics Department
University of New Mexico
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