INTRIGUING ASPECTS OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES

This paper includes a description of 3 affiliated oriental languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It includes a description of the origin s of these 3 languages and the inter-relationship among them. Drawn fr om the viewpoints of several experienced researchers in the field of O CR (Optical Character Recognition) and computational linguistics, it a ttempts to bring out the intriguing aspects of these 3 ideographic lan guages, including the formation and composition of pictograms, special features, learning, understanding, contextual information, and recogn ition of characters and words, and their relations to poetic expressio ns and pattern recognition techniques. Numerous references are given a nd comments on future trends are also presented.