noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
belated recognition/realization/acknowledgement
▪ The statement was a belated acknowledgement that the project had not been a success.
deserve recognition (=public respect and thanks)
▪ The teaching profession deserves more recognition.
diplomatic recognition (=acceptance that a government or organization has official authority)
▪ Beijing's diplomatic recognition of South Korea
formal recognition
▪ formal recognition of the reformed church
optical character recognition
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
belated
▪ Most importantly it is a belated recognition that imperialism offers a fantastically huge and barely mined seam of stories.
▪ Such a belated recognition is likely to strike a reader as old news.
diplomatic
▪ He had hoped for concessions in return, including diplomatic recognition.
formal
▪ Moscow was delighted, seeing formal recognition of its sphere of influence.
▪ During the following twelve months the sultan issued a series of decrees which gave formal recognition to the MiloÜ-Marasli agreement.
▪ Essentially the formal recognition of a union legitimises workers' resistance, and this can immeasurably strengthen their bargaining position.
▪ But any more fundamental change, which would constitute the ultimate formal recognition of their new identity, is to be denied.
▪ Future plans for the Sciences will also involve negotiations with appropriate bodies regarding formal recognition of the new provision.
full
▪ He entered Paris on 25 August and in October his government was given full recognition by the Allies.
general
▪ There is also general recognition that for many years prisons have failed to meet these objectives.
▪ Further the Commission sought a general system of recognition of diplomas, subject to a minimum three years post secondary training.
▪ The above considerations make a general purpose handwriting recognition system a virtual impossibility.
▪ If there is little peripheral information in the non-risky exemplars, attention focusing would have no general effect on recognition sensitivity.
great
▪ The importance of this enabling approach is, happily, gaining greater recognition.
▪ The wines of Bergères-les-Vertus are firm and fruity, with good extract and fine balance and well deserving of greater recognition.
▪ There is a greater recognition than there was five years ago that the ten million people over retirement age are not homogeneous.
▪ They argue that the barriers to participation which exist in society should be given greater recognition.
▪ This has led to a greater recognition of the complexity of development.
growing
▪ Third, there is the growing recognition that Labour could not carry through a radical programme of change without mass support.
▪ Today that link is stronger, as part of a growing recognition that cathedral, parish and diocese all belong together.
▪ There is a growing recognition by educators and others that traditional schooling does not adequately serve an increasingly large number of students.
▪ Today it seems to evince a growing recognition that totalization can not be achieved without a movement involving the transcendence of itself.
▪ But, despite growing international recognition of the plight of elephants on general, the wider problems of their conservation remain.
▪ There was a growing recognition that the war had solved nothing.
international
▪ He appeared at the Montreux festival in 1978, and at last began to get some international recognition as a pianist.
▪ William Golding has the same international recognition.
▪ But, despite growing international recognition of the plight of elephants on general, the wider problems of their conservation remain.
▪ Degree qualifications, of course, already carry international recognition. 6.
legal
▪ If, moreover, the unit in question receives widespread legal recognition, we call it a sovereign state.
mutual
▪ There are also chapters on those areas most affected by the Seventh Directive: harmonisation, equivalence and mutual recognition.
▪ The mutual recognition of ministers and members that is inherent in all union schemes plays a crucial role here.
▪ The 1991 Basic Agreement, which looked forward to a peace treaty and mutual recognition, can also be reaffirmed.
▪ There has to be a mutual recognition among the partners to sacrifice income.
▪ However faster progress is being achieved via the mechanism of mutual recognition.
▪ Steps towards free movement of labour have been taken by use of mutual recognition of many vocational qualifications.
▪ But harmonization will now concentrate on the essentials - the peripherals will be left to a process of mutual recognition by states.
▪ Initially mutual recognition has been targeted at the professions and holders of higher level qualifications.
official
▪ Voters supported proposition 22 by 61 % to 39 %, bestowing official recognition only on marriages between men and women.
▪ The stigmata on this foot was carefully examined during its official recognition in 1597.
▪ Blake returned to London a hero in the eyes of MI6 but the secret nature of his work precluded any official recognition.
▪ But for the forgotten victims - the wives - there is little official recognition, let alone pressure for reform.
▪ A further twenty-three laborious years were to elapse before official recognition of his services to Britain was given.
▪ In this way, for the first time, the Association obtains official recognition.
▪ He gained only minimal official recognition for his work; death prevented his election to the Royal Society.
▪ This afforded Ted Church's involvement official recognition.
optical
▪ This can be on-line or off-line recognition of hand-printed characters, or of machine-printed characters using optical character recognition.
▪ One projected use is for optical recognition experiments.
▪ This could include word processing, a database, case management and optical character recognition.
▪ One example is the method of recognition using template matching which is applied in both speech recognition and optical character recognition.
public
▪ Their Lordships certainly gained added public recognition from television.
▪ Almost as dramatic as the loss of personal or private recognition of their achievements was the loss of public recognition.
▪ On another level, de Gaulle's public recognition of self-determination and the option of independence opened up new possibilities for negotiation.
▪ No public recognition of a claim means no authority.
▪ By dint of their dogged determination and desire for public recognition, they united the shipping interests in London.
▪ In many churches their arrival receives no public recognition.
▪ Another large reservoir of fossil fuels, solid gas hydrates, has recently come to public recognition.
visual
▪ An obvious candidate is a visual recognition system.
▪ Kunihiko Fukushima developed the Neocognitron, a neural net-work model for visual pattern recognition.
▪ We then went on to describe the Johnston-McClelland model of visual word recognition and the Cohort model of auditory word recognition.
▪ There are mazes, obstacle courses, visual recognition games, trial-and-error experiments, arcade-style shooting games.
▪ The only way in which visual recognition of a word can be primed is by previously seeing the word.
▪ Thus hearing a word, or producing it in response to an incomplete definition, will not prime visual word recognition.
▪ The priming experiments can tell us something more specific about the visual recognition system used for identifying words.
▪ Obviously, being transparent makes visual recognition by both predators and prey more difficult.
■ NOUN
character
▪ This can be on-line or off-line recognition of hand-printed characters, or of machine-printed characters using optical character recognition.
▪ Clustering applications would include things like character recognition, sonar / radar signal classification, and robotic control.
▪ Parsytec plans to release an entire family of character recognition systems with prices starting at £15,000.
▪ This could include word processing, a database, case management and optical character recognition.
▪ And character recognition is relatively slow and prone to errors even on powerful computers.
▪ Further details of printed character recognition systems are not included here in order to concentrate on cursive handwriting systems.
▪ Typically context is used only in the form of spelling correction information to compensate for errors in character recognition.
handwriting
▪ Many of these applications may need some form of handwriting recognition.
▪ Script recognition Handwriting recognition is performed either on-line or off-line.
▪ Such tablets first became available in the late 1950's and precipitated considerable activity in on-line handwriting recognition.
▪ On-line handwriting recognition requires some kind of digitising data tablet to capture the script as it is written.
▪ Effective and reliable handwriting recognition will necessarily form an important part of this new technology.
▪ Systems for handwriting recognition Script recognition systems are traditionally most heavily concerned with the problem of pattern recognition.
▪ There are arguments in favour of handwriting recognition.
name
▪ As noted, eurobond issuers need to be of good reputation, whether in terms of credit quality or name recognition.
▪ The purchase provides the Rowling family with lodging properties that carry instant name recognition, analysts said.
▪ Early money will make a big difference in establishing name recognition, especially in the crowded Ward 6 race.
▪ All have relatively low name recognition.
pattern
▪ In other words information is collected at the pattern recognition stage, and all further levels select from this.
▪ Kunihiko Fukushima developed the Neocognitron, a neural net-work model for visual pattern recognition.
▪ Intelligent processes, such as: pattern recognition, image reconstruction, learning, reasoning by deduction, expert problem solving.
▪ It is well suited to speech and pattern recognition applications, and makes neural networks an add-on technology to existing processing.
▪ Simply improving the performance of the pattern recognition module will not produce a recognition performance comparable to that of a human.
▪ Most of them have to do with pattern recognition.
▪ The pattern recognition technique enables the computer to cope with a certain amount of operator error, minor misspellings make no difference.
▪ The following discussion investigates improvements which could be made to augment the pattern recognition information.
process
▪ Discussion: Evidently, collocational information can significantly improve the recognition process.
▪ This thesis examines the use of syntactic information for assisting in the text recognition process.
▪ Most existing recognition systems concentrate on the pattern recognition process, and have not utilised the substantial amounts of available context.
▪ Moreover, the recognition process is a double mirror structure in that a Subject is also recognized and thereby constituted.
▪ Another bias is in the emphasis on recognition processes, rather than linguistic and comprehension ones.
▪ As the character candidates are received from the pattern recognition process the combinations of characters are checked for validity in the lexicon.
▪ A similar recognition process is carried out for static input.
script
▪ Elastic curve matching has also been applied to cursive script recognition.
▪ For the reasons explained above, the interest in script recognition systems has been expanding in recent years.
▪ Systems for handwriting recognition Script recognition systems are traditionally most heavily concerned with the problem of pattern recognition.
▪ Wright's system for cursive script recognition has efficient low-level processing but relies on a dictionary and higher level linguistic processing.
▪ However, parameters for them for individual writers could be extracted from an initial training phase for a script recognition system.
▪ Handwriting, or script recognition is a difficult task due to the inherent ambiguity within the input.
▪ This principle could be applied to the current script recognition system to make best use of all available information.
speech
▪ Despite a large amount of research into automatic speech recognition the results have been unimpressive.
▪ Continuous speech recognition and synthesis are additional examples of tasks neural networks are undertaking with reasonable success.
▪ A commonly used argument in favour of speech recognition is that it is the most natural communication medium.
▪ Areas such as vision, continuous speech recognition and synthesis, and machine learning have been hard.
▪ Our first aim was to examine the lexical access components of a number of existing speech recognition systems.
▪ What you hear will incorporate high-fidelity sound, speech synthesis, and speech recognition.
▪ Noisy Environments: speech recognition is made difficult if interference is created by noisy machinery or extraneous conversations.
▪ Writing allows private communication with the computer that is not possible with speech recognition.
system
▪ Significant improvements were found in the recognition performance of the recognition system.
▪ An obvious candidate is a visual recognition system.
▪ Our first aim was to examine the lexical access components of a number of existing speech recognition systems.
▪ Parsytec plans to release an entire family of character recognition systems with prices starting at £15,000.
▪ However this knowledge is not available in our recognition system.
▪ Systems for handwriting recognition Script recognition systems are traditionally most heavily concerned with the problem of pattern recognition.
▪ Furthermore with a text recognition system, as the lexicon gets larger the problems increase.
text
▪ Analogously, computerised text recognition needs to use higher level knowledge to achieve comparable levels of performance.
▪ An ulterior motive for performing text recognition is to convert existing printed material into a computer format that permits further processing.
▪ The development of reliable text recognition procedures would serve two important functions.
▪ Conclusions A probabilistic syntax processor has been developed to assist in the selection of the correct words for a text recognition system.
▪ There are difficulties associated with automatic text recognition however.
▪ Existing systems for performing text recognition are susceptible to errors.
▪ For an automatic text recognition system to succeed it should exploit as much of the higher level information as is computationally possible.
▪ Incorporation of some of the linguistic information that humans employ is necessary to improve text recognition systems.
word
▪ Models of face processing Finally, I want to move from cognitive models of word recognition to cognitive models of face recognition.
▪ In the first stage of word recognition, cohort reduction occurs as early sensory information defines the word-initial cohort.
▪ We then went on to describe the Johnston-McClelland model of visual word recognition and the Cohort model of auditory word recognition.
▪ In doing so we have argued that the processes involved in word recognition are rather different for spoken and printed words.
▪ As this is the case, part of the research will examine various experimental techniques used previously in studies on word recognition.
▪ Thus hearing a word, or producing it in response to an incomplete definition, will not prime visual word recognition.
▪ However, the implications of the work extend beyond theories of face recognition to theories of visual object and word recognition.
▪ Access to the compound tree is achieved through the word recognition tree.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ All of these situations produce character-level ambiguity which must be reduced to achieve good recognition performance.
▪ The training to achieve a recognition speed of 6o characters per second was accomplished in 3 1 / 2 hours.
▪ Access to the compound tree is achieved through the word recognition tree.
▪ They had to achieve managerial recognition that accountability to colleagues in the team was important alongside accountability to individual agencies.
▪ For example: Handwriting contains many similarly shaped characters which must be distinguished from each other to achieve effective recognition.
▪ Not to have achieved recognition as a failure, felt Dyson, was almost worse than the failing itself.
change
▪ Clearly the role has changed beyond all recognition.
▪ Parenting in many ways has changed beyond recognition.
▪ This is another area which is changing out of all recognition since closure of the colliery and removal of sidings etc.
▪ In the course of a single year, Moon-Watcher and his companions had changed almost beyond recognition.
▪ The weather might be dull, it might be drizzling, but Broadstairs promenade had changed almost beyond recognition.
▪ Since then, the ideas of which Dawkins was an early champion have changed biology beyond recognition.
▪ John Butterworth joined the company as an apprentice 30 years ago he says Westcott has changed beyond all recognition.
▪ But a small error in the procedure could easily leave her inoperable, or at least changed beyond recognition.
deserve
▪ These inspectors nominate those staff they feel deserve extra recognition.
▪ So splendid, in fact, it deserves special recognition.
▪ This is a pity for his achievement in securing the crucial Committee vote deserves the members' recognition for his astuteness.
▪ You need to behave as though you are worthy of, and deserve, recognition.
▪ We train as hard and deserve recognition.
gain
▪ He has given the nurses every support in their efforts to gain recognition, and will speak at their conference.
▪ The brothers' work continued to stir interest and gain recognition.
▪ The importance of this enabling approach is, happily, gaining greater recognition.
▪ M that he began to gain recognition as an offensive coordinator with an effective wide-open attack and the ability to groom quarterbacks.
▪ To gain attention and recognition we need to be able to attend to and recognise others.
▪ Some remained essentially local, some gained a widespread popular recognition, and certain deities rose to national significance.
▪ To gain recognition unions had to accept the logic and rules of the capitalist system.
give
▪ Good practice involves careful listening, giving recognition, with patience.
▪ Female managers are also about 15 percent more likely to give recognition for good work.
▪ Every time you meet some one, they give you rank and recognition according to what you say and how you say it.
▪ We would give that some recognition.
▪ Both parties will give rank and recognition according to individual beliefs and values.
▪ Appeal gives status and recognition to protest.
▪ There are some places where this is done: too few, and far too seldom given recognition.
grant
▪ But in the first, euphoric phase of the disease, only the apparent text is granted recognition by the anorexic.
▪ Mike Leavitt has signed into law a bill banning public schools from granting recognition or access to gay or lesbian student groups.
▪ With time, the government grants a DeFacto recognition by installing running water, electricity, and by paving the roads.
receive
▪ Vast numbers of people, especially among the elderly, receive no financial recognition of their moderate disability.
▪ It is the third year the station has received this national recognition.
▪ Their job does not always receive the recognition which it deserves.
▪ In many churches their arrival receives no public recognition.
▪ In the same year Clovis received some recognition from the emperor Anastasius.
▪ If, moreover, the unit in question receives widespread legal recognition, we call it a sovereign state.
▪ Her success had been due to her own qualities; and she had even received national recognition for some of her work.
▪ But it is essential that the originators receive due recognition.
win
▪ Lawrence, however, feels the team have not won the recognition they deserve.
▪ The program, Striving Toward Excellence in Performance, ultimately won national recognition for innovation in government.
▪ There was still the bitter disappointment of his failure to win the recognition he deserved.
▪ By 1920 she had proved herself by earning a living in a difficult world, and by winning recognition in literary circles.
▪ Before he was incapacitated, Menelik had won recognition for his conquests and acceptance of his new frontiers.
▪ It was those sessions which won the band initial recognition and a recording contract.
▪ Meanwhile, the Mossley Mill project has also won national recognition.
▪ Now, however, Louisa is winning the recognition her well composed and deeply appealing pictures deserve.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Although he was popular in Europe, Hendrix had yet to achieve recognition in his home country.
▪ In 1991, Bush granted diplomatic recognition to Russia.
▪ She had to spend 10 years as a struggling artist, before receiving any recognition for her work.
▪ She stared at him without recognition for a few seconds.
▪ Women painters got little recognition in those days.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Effective and reliable handwriting recognition will necessarily form an important part of this new technology.
▪ He appeared at the Montreux festival in 1978, and at last began to get some international recognition as a pianist.
▪ Instead of recognition, supervisors focused on controlling workers-looking for and documenting rule infractions.
▪ It is suggested that recognition of this distinction is fundamental to the efficient and economical design and execution of stability tests.
▪ Most of them have to do with pattern recognition.
▪ The area of research is the automatic recognition of handwriting and printed text by computer.
▪ With appropriate coaching and recognition, you can help your employees be more productive and meet these goals.