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Using Singular Value Decomposition to Investigate Degraded Chinese Character Recognition: Evidence from Eye Movements during Reading

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Title: Using Singular Value Decomposition to Investigate Degraded Chinese Character Recognition: Evidence from Eye Movements during Reading
Language: English
Authors: Wang, Hsueh-Cheng, Schotter, Elizabeth R., Angele, Bernhard, Yang, Jinmian, Simovici, Dan, Pomplun, Marc, Rayner, Keith
Source: Journal of Research in Reading. Apr 2013 36(S1):S35-S50.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 16
Publication Date: 2013
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Chinese, Eye Movements, Visual Stimuli, Visual Perception, Ideography, College Students, Sentences, Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate
Geographic Terms: Massachusetts
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2013.01558.x
ISSN: 0141-0423
Abstract: Previous research indicates that removing initial strokes from Chinese characters makes them harder to read than removing final or internal ones. In the present study, we examined the contribution of important components to character configuration via singular value decomposition. The results indicated that when the least important segments, which did not seriously alter the configuration (contour) of the character, were deleted, subjects read as fast as when no segments were deleted. When the most important segments, which are located in the left side of a character and written first, were deleted, reading speed was greatly slowed. These results suggest that singular value decomposition, which has no information about stroke writing order, can identify the most important strokes for Chinese character identification. Furthermore, they also suggest that contour may be correlated with stroke writing order. (Contains 3 tables and 8 figures.)
Abstractor: As Provided
Number of References: 34
Entry Date: 2014
Accession Number: EJ1011768
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:Previous research indicates that removing initial strokes from Chinese characters makes them harder to read than removing final or internal ones. In the present study, we examined the contribution of important components to character configuration via singular value decomposition. The results indicated that when the least important segments, which did not seriously alter the configuration (contour) of the character, were deleted, subjects read as fast as when no segments were deleted. When the most important segments, which are located in the left side of a character and written first, were deleted, reading speed was greatly slowed. These results suggest that singular value decomposition, which has no information about stroke writing order, can identify the most important strokes for Chinese character identification. Furthermore, they also suggest that contour may be correlated with stroke writing order. (Contains 3 tables and 8 figures.)
ISSN:0141-0423
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9817.2013.01558.x