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[Isabelle Guyon]

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                          June 1994

 * CALL FOR DATA (please post) 

At the initiative of Technical Committee 11 of the International Association
for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the UNIPEN project was started to
stimulate research and development in on-line handwriting recognition 
(e. g. for pen computers and pen communicators). UNIPEN provides a platform of
data exchange at the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and is organizing
this year a worldwide benchmark under the control of the US National Institute
of Standards and Technologies (NIST). The benchmark is concerned with writer
independent recognition of sentences, isolated words and isolated characters of
any writing style (handprinted and/or cursive). Although UNIPEN will provide,
in the future, data for various alphabets, this particular benchmark is
limited to letters and symbols from an English computer keyboard . The data
will be donated by the participants.

 * Conditions of participation 

Participation to the benchmark is open to any individual or institution who
provides a sample of handwriting in the UNIPEN format which contains at least
12,000 characters. The data must be of acceptable quality and donated by   
October 1st, 1994 . The database of donated samples will be available for free
to the data donators. Registration material can be obtained by sending email
to Stan Janet at stan at magi.ncsl.nist.gov or via ftp:
  
        ftp ftp.cis.upenn.edu
        Name: anonymous
        Password: [use your email address]
        ftp> cd pub/UNIPEN-pub/documents
        ftp> get call-for-data.ps
        ftp> quit
 
 * Organizing committee 

Isabelle Guyon, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA 
Lambert Schomaker, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, The Netherlands  
Stan Janet, National Institute of Standards and Technologies, USA  
Mark Liberman, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, USA  
Rejean Plamondon, IAPR, TC11, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada