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Subject: Re: dylsexics of the wrold, untie!
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From: James Rogers <jamesr@best.com>
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On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 12:22, Dave Long wrote:
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> <http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000393.html>
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>
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> > ... randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no
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> > effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This
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> > is easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could
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> > ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same,
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> > and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come
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> > to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce
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> > retigcionon. Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael
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> > prsooscers at work. The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing
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> > coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need
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> > the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang.
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I'm working with an experimental text recognition/processing engine that
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exhibits similar characteristics. It can read right through
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misspellings like the above without any difficulty. And as the author
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above suggested, the pattern matching is inherently parallel internally.
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If the text recognition algorithm/architecture humans use is anything
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like the algorithm/structure we've been working with, the reason the
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first letter (and to a lesser extent, the last letter) is important is
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that without it the text pattern recognition problem is exponentially
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more difficult (from a theoretical standpoint anyway) and has to be
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resolved using deeper abstraction analysis. The middle letters are far
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less important and computationally much easier to resolve correctly.
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Cheers,
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-James Rogers
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jamesr@best.com
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