Intriguing aspects of oriental languages

摘要

This paper includes a description of 3 affiliated oriental languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is includes a description of the origins of these 3 languages and The inter-relationship among them. Drawn from the viewpoints of several experienced Researchers in the field of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and computational lin- Guistics, it attempts to bring out the intriguing aspects of these 3 ideographic languages, including the formation and composition of pictograms, special features, learning, un- derstanding, contextual information, and recognition of characters and words, and their relations to poetic expressions and pattern recognition techniques. Numerous references are given and comments on future trends are also presented.