Abstract

. Out-of-order diacriticals introduce significant complexity to the design of an on-line handwriting recognizer, because they require some reordering of the time domain information. It is common in cursive writing to write the body of a `i' or `t' during the writing of the word, and then to return and dot or cross the letter once the word is complete. The difficulty arises because we have to look ahead, when scoring one of these letters, to find the mark occurring later in the writing stream that completes the letter. We should also remember that we have used this mark, so that we don't use it again for a different letter, and we should also penalize a word if there are some marks that look like diacriticals that are not used. One approach to this problem is to scan the writing some distance into the future to identify candidate diacriticals, remove them in a preprocessing step, and associate them with the matching letters earlier in the word. If done as a preliminary operation, this a...

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