Character Recognition and Input Methods

               Organized by Patrick Wang and Matthew Ma

The research on Chinese character recognition, both off-line and
on-line, both machine printed and handwritten, have been going on for 20
years or so. Some character recognition commercial products have also
been available for a decade. Traditional character recognition
technologies were mainly used to enter information into a computer.
While these technologies continue to improve, the emerging technologies
in computer industry, internet networking, and e-commerce etc. have
opened great potential opportunities for the traditional technologies to
be extended and adapted to the new industry. For instance, many
documents are created electronically and made easily accessible via
internet, therefore OCR is no longer needed in some industry; on-line
handwriting recognition can be extended to PDA type devices and
signature verification methods in e-commerce use some common techniques
in handwriting recognition. In order to adapt to the rapid
changing world, Chinese Character Recognition and Input Methods session
concerns research in but not limited to the following area:
 
 - Character recognition, on-line and off-line, novel approach or
systems
 - Handwriting recognition, on-line and off-line
 - Chinese words verification, on-line and off-line
 - Syntax-semantics analysis
 - Knowledge-based methodologies 
 - Computer input methods and devices: keyboards, tablet/stylus,
whiteboard, fax, e-mail etc.
 - Signature verification
 - Use of PDA and Palm-top related device for easy access of web-base
networks or e-commerce
 - Efficient data entry methods for Chinese language


Please send paper to:


Dr. Matthew Ma
Panasonic Technologies, Inc.
2 Research Way, Princeton, NJ 08540
Tel: 609-734-7348   Fax: 609-987-8827
E-mail: mma@research.panasonic.com