From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 15:32:15 CDT
On 25/09/2004 20:53, Doug Ewell wrote:
>Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote:
>
>
>
>>If we are considering a scenario in which someone takes shorthand
>>notes at a meeting and transcribes them later, interchange between
>>computers is likely to be required. If this process is to be
>>automated, a sensible way to do so would be for the minute-taker to
>>write shorthand on to a hand-held computer's screen. This data would
>>then need to be transferred to a desktop or networked machine for
>>transcription and further editing. The most processing-efficient way
>>to do so might be to transfer images, but that would be a lot of data
>>for a record of an entire meeting, so for bandwidth efficiency the
>>hand-held computer should analyse the shorthand and transfer the
>>shorthand text in some kind of encoded form.
>>
>>
>
>Is this a realistic scenario? (This is not a rhetorical question; I
>really want to know.)
>
>If this sort of workflow actually happens, or would if the encoding were
>there, then that might constitute a valid use case for encoding
>shorthand. But as far as I know, accurate handwriting analysis of
>shorthand or other "normal" penmanship (not Palm Graffiti or a similar
>scheme) by commonly available handhelds is not up to this challenge. I
>may be wrong.
>
>
>
All I can say is that there is work on progress on automatic recognition
and transcription of shorthand on handheld computers. See for example
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/asgleedham/CurrentResearch.htm#Proj6, which
also gives a good justification for implementing such a system, and
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ceilidh/people.html (last section).
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sun Sep 26 2004 - 09:27:40 CST