• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.80-87
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• 2024

The Manchu language holds historical significance, but a complete dataset of Manchu script letters for training optical character recognition machine-learning models is currently unavailable. Therefore, this paper describes the process of creating a robust dataset of extracted Manchu script letters. Rather than performing automatic letter segmentation based on whitespace or the thickness of the central word stem, an image of the Manchu script was manually inspected, and one copy of the desired letter was selected as a region of interest. This selected region of interest was used as a template to match all other occurrences of the same letter within the Manchu script image. Although the dataset in this study contained only 4,000 images of five Manchu script letters, these letters were collected from twenty-eight writing styles. A full dataset of Manchu letters is expected to be obtained through this process. The collected dataset was normalized and trained using a simple convolutional neural network to verify its effectiveness.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.624-626
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• 2021

Yumentingzheng, which records the contents of the Qing dynasty's discussions with his subjects, is an important document like the Annals of Joseon in Korea. This paper describes the method and steps for big data analysis of Yumentingzheng written in Manchu alphabet. In big data analysis of documents written in Manchu characters, there are many problems that need to be solved in advance, and research on these should be preceded. In this paper, a method of big data analysis using the R language was proposed in the stage where the text written in Manchurian characters was transliterated into Latin characters through a preliminary study to be conducted in the future. In the proposed method, Apkai method was adopted for the transliteration of Wumentingzheng, and the results of big data analysis were presented using the text of Weiwenqiju.