SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR ACCOMODATING VARIABILITY IN CHUNKING THE SUB-WORD UNITS OF ONLINE HANDWRITING

摘要

A technique that provides automatic real-time segmentation of an ink stream that does not require learning any chunking methodology, style of writing, and/or a predefined symbol set. In one example embodiment, this is achieved by drawing one or more strokes associated with a desired word of a script in one or more boxes provided on a digitizer screen using a pen. A handwriting recognition engine dynamically segments the one or more drawn strokes using a grammar net to form one or more candidate words upon a pen-up event. The grammar net comprises an inter-symbol grammar network that defines legitimate classes or combinations that can be formed using the characters in an associated script. The formed one or more candidate words are then displayed.