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SUMMARY:Optical Character Recognition for most of the world's languages
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DESCRIPTION:Ashok C. Popat\, Research Scientist\, Google\, Inc.\nMuch of i
 nterpersonal communication is linguistic\, and people exchange linguistic 
 information primarily through speech and through graphical symbolic repres
 entation of speech utterances\, i.e.\, writing\, printing\, typing\, etc.
   In the modern digital age we can represent written communication as seq
 uences of bits grouped into Unicode points\, a means which is capable of r
 epresenting many if not most of the world's extant languages.  But much o
 f the world's recorded information is still in visual rather than digital 
 Unicode form\; it is in books\, newspapers\, manuscripts\, and letters\; o
 n post-its\, whiteboards\, street signs\, or video captions.  It may also
  be in the form of a gesture on a touch pad or mobile phone screen\, to al
 low an alternative method of text entry than a keyboard.  The conversion 
 of all of these representations to Unicode for use in the digital world is
  generally known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR).  How might an OC
 R system be designed to handle all of the world's languages?  I'll explai
 n some challenges that make this nontrivial and describe an approach we're
  exploring at Google.\nBio: Ashok C. Popat received the SB and SM degrees 
 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering i
 n 1986 and 1990\, and the PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 1997. He is a Rese
 arch Scientist at Google in Mountain View. Prior to joining Google in 2005
  he worked at Xerox PARC. His interests include signal processing\, data c
 ompression\, machine translation\, and pattern recognition. He enjoys runn
 ing\, skiing\, sailing\, hiking\, and spending time with his wife and two 
 daughters.\nAshok C. Popat on LinkedIn
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