
Title
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	On-line Hangul(Korean) Characters, English Alphabets and Words Data

Produced by
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	NotePad Project Team
	AI Lab. / CAIR , Computer Science Department, KAIST, KOREA

Nature of Data
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	mixed style characters and words

Contents
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	- README : this file

	- Han : directory for HANGUL data
	- Eng : directory for English data

	- */Train : data for training
	- */Test  : data for testing

	- Han/*/1 : written characters by high school students (a part of novel)
	- Han/*/2 : written characters by KAIST students
					(The National Charter of Education)
	- Han/*/3 : written characters by KAIST students (KSS 2350 characters)
	- Han/*/4 : written characters by KAIST students (article)

	- Eng/*/1 : English alphabets
	- Eng/*/2 : English words (mixed style)

Data Format
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	- =R 3 0 0 0

		3: number of strokes
		skip 0 0 0

	- =L 0 0 0 0 1  0.0
	  =L 0 0 0 0 1 are 0.0

		skip 0 0 0 0 1
		 or are: label of this character
		skip 0.0

	- =S 20
		62 143  78 132 100 121 116 110 105 126  89 137  73 159
		56 180  46 202  35 223  30 245  30 261  51 272  67 266
		78 250  94 245 110 229 126 207 143 191 153 180

		=S n (n:number of points in that stroke)
		  x y x y x y ...... : x,y position of points
		
		a character/word ends when =S is repeated as the number of strokes
		next character/word starts by next =R

	a character/word represented by
		=R : number of strokes
		=L : label
		=S : points in that stroke
		=S : points in that stroke
		=S : points in that stroke
		 .
		 .
		 .

total number of character/word
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	Han/Train/1 : 19,579 characters
	Han/Train/2 :  1,805 characters
	Han/Train/3 : 21,868 characters

	Han/Test/1  : 17,500 characters
	Han/Test/2  :  7,036 characters
	Han/Test/3  : 19,235 characters
	Han/Test/4  :  2,081 characters

	Eng/Train/1 :  4,987 alphabets
	Eng/Train/2 :  3,042 words

	Eng/Test/1  :  2,718 alphabets
	Eng/Test/2  :  1,411 words

	total
	  	89,104 Hangul characters
	  	7,705 English alphabets, 4,453 English words

COPYRIGHT
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	Copyright 1993 KAIST AI Lab./CAIR

	This data was collected to perform NotePad project
	supporting from several companies.
	Therefore, if you want to copy and use this data,
	you must keep following promises.

	- You must only use this data for research.
	- You must not use this to make commercial product.
	- You must not sell or distribute this to others.

	- Please send me your object and organization by e-mail.

Access
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	unix> ftp cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr
	Name (cair:): anonymous
	Password: <your e-mail address>
	ftp> cd incoming
	ftp> binary
	ftp> get ondata.tar.gz
	ftp> quit
	unix> gunzip ondata.tar.gz
	unix> tar xvf ondata.tar

Contact
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	Kwon, Jae Ook
	AI. Lab
	Computer Science Department

	TEL : +82-42-869-5557
	FAX : +82-42-869-3510
	E-MAIL: jokwon@boramai.kaist.ac.kr
