misc

documents/bachelor-proposal-latex-writing-recognition/bachelor-proposal-latex-writing-recognition.tex.bak

@@ -1,249 +0,0 @@
-\documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl}
-\usepackage{amssymb, amsmath} % needed for math
-\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % this is needed for umlauts
-\usepackage[english]{babel} % this is needed for umlauts
-\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}    % this is needed for correct output of umlauts in pdf
-\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry} %layout
-\usepackage{hyperref}   % links im text
-\usepackage{color}
-\usepackage{framed}
-\usepackage{enumerate}  % for advanced numbering of lists
-\usepackage{csquotes}
-\usepackage{ifxetex,ifluatex}
-\usepackage{etoolbox}
-\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
-\usepackage{tikz}
-\usepackage{framed}
-\usepackage{parskip}
-\usepackage{cite}
-\usepackage{fancyref}
-\usepackage{mystyle}
-\clubpenalty  = 10000   % Schusterjungen verhindern
-\widowpenalty = 10000   % Hurenkinder verhindern
-
-\hypersetup{ 
-  pdfauthor   = {Martin Thoma}, 
-  pdfkeywords = {Bachelor proposal, LaTeX, handwriting recognition}, 
-  pdftitle    = {Proposal for a Bachelor of Science Thesis:\\Interactive on-line handwriting recognition of mathematical formulae} 
-} 
-
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-
-\begin{document}
-    \title{Proposal for a Bachelor of Science Thesis:\\Interactive on-line handwriting recognition of mathematical formulae}
-    \author{Martin Thoma}
-    \maketitle
-\section{The problem backgound}
-    There are people who don't know how to write even
-    simple mathematical formulae with \LaTeX{} like
-    \[\pi/\alpha=\sum_{n=-\infty}^\infty \frac{\sin^2 (c+n)\alpha}{(c+n)^2}=\int_{-\infty}^\infty \frac{\sin^2 (c+n)\alpha}{(c+n)^2}\, \text{d}n\]
-    or who need much time to do so. Currently, there are several online
-    services, programms and apps that help to write mathematical 
-    formulae, but all programms I know have serious disadvantages:
-    \begin{itemize}
-        \item \href{http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html}{detexify.kirelabs.org}
-              recognizes \textbf{only symbols},
-        \item the formel editor of LibreOffice Writer 3.6 as showen 
-              in \Fref{fig:libre-office-3.6} offers some
-              guidiance by grouping common operations while showing
-              a WYSIWYG editor, but it has \textbf{no handwriting recognition}.
-              Another drawback is the fact that it is \textbf{not available 
-              as an online service}, so you have to install LibreOffice
-              which might not be possible on all devices.
-        \item The \enquote{Daum Equation Editor} (see \Fref{fig:daum-editor}) is available online
-              and offers guidiance through the creation of equations,
-              but does not offer handwriting recognition. Although
-              it might be OpenSource, the \textbf{source code is difficult to
-              find}. This means if you want to improve the recognition,
-              it is not possible. It also makes use of Adobe Flash 
-              which is not available on many smartphones and tablet
-              computers.
-        \item Maple seems to offer handwritten symbol recognition (\href{http://www.maplesoft.com/products/maple/features/handwritten.aspx}{source}),
-              but on the one hand I was not able to test that, because
-              it is \textbf{not available for free}. On the other hand you 
-              have to install additional software, it seems not to be
-              available for tablet computers and it does only recognize
-              single symbols.
-        \item Wolfram Mathematica seems to be able to do complete
-              formula recognition at least for simple formulae (\href{http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/HandwrittenMathRecognition.html}{source})
-              by using Microsofts \href{http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ph/windows7/use-math-input-panel-to-write-and-correct-math-equations}{Math Input Panel},
-              but this is neither OpenSource nor available as an
-              online service. Additionally it is not
-              available for Linux systems, so I can't test it.
-    \end{itemize}
-
-    A more comprehensive list can be found at \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_editor}{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula\_editor}.
-    A problem of some of the projects presented there is that they
-    require the client to execute Java Applets which is a security 
-    risk.
-
-    \begin{figure}[h]
-        \centering
-        \includegraphics*[width=5cm, keepaspectratio]{figures/libreoffice-writer.png}
-        \caption{LibreOffice Writer 3.6 - Formel Editor}
-        \label{fig:libre-office-3.6}
-    \end{figure}
-
-    \begin{figure}[h]
-        \centering
-        \includegraphics*[width=15cm, keepaspectratio]{figures/daum-editor.png}
-        \caption{Daum Equation editor}
-        \label{fig:daum-editor}
-    \end{figure}
-\break
-\section{The problem statement}
-    What I would like to have is an interactive on-line handwriting
-    recognition service, that is available as a web service which makes
-    use of touchscreens. Additionally, it should be for free and 
-    OpenSource, the source code should be easy to find and documented.
-    This means:
-    \begin{itemize}
-        \item \textbf{Service}: The program can be accessed over the web, so
-              that the user does only have to have a modern browser. 
-              As a consequence, the software could be used with any
-              device that has a touch screen.
-        \item \textbf{On-line handwriting recognition}: The service
-              starts recognizing while the user enters a formula.
-        \item \textbf{Interactive}: The service offers symbols and constructs
-              to the user before the user starts typing. These suggestions
-              might chage depending on what the user has typed before.
-        \item \textbf{OpenSource}: Any license in this list: \href{http://opensource.org/licenses}{http://opensource.org/licenses}
-        \item \textbf{Easy to find}: Ideally, the project should have
-              an own domain that contains the source code, the service
-              and documentation. But it might be enough to provide
-              an email address to a developer within the top of
-              of the source code of the delivered HTML document.
-    \end{itemize}
-
-    This service should also encourage the users by techniques
-    of \enquote{gamification} to give as much
-    meta information about their formulae as possible:
-    \begin{itemize}
-        \item Which problem domain does the formula belong to, e.~g. \enquote{Euclidean geometry}, \enquote{analysis} or \enquote{calculus}?
-        \item Does the formula itself have a name, e.~g. \enquote{Pythagorean theorem}, \enquote{Fibonacci numbers} or \enquote{geometric series}?
-    \end{itemize}
-
-    This information should be used to create a formula database.
-
-\section{Significance}
-For me as a Linux user, there no software that I can test and which 
-offers on-line, interactive math handwriting recognition. But the
-need of such a software is there.
-
-But there are more reasons why this bachelor's thesis matters:
-Projects like \LaTeX{}, Linux, Apache or FireFox have shown that
-OpenSoure software can enrich the develpment in specific areas. The
-\enquote{Browser Wars} might be the most famous result of an active
-OpenSource community. Internet Explorer 6 had
-a market share of over 80\% in 2003. Prequels of Firefox and the Mozilla 
-foundation already existed, but Firefox 1.0 was released not until
-November 2004. After that, Firefox and other open browsers added many
-features that Internet Explorer had to compete with, like tabbed browsing,
-HTML4 standard conformance, support of the \texttt{<canvas>} tag and
-speed of HTML rendering and JavaScript execution.\footnote{\href{http://www.evolutionoftheweb.com/}{www.evolutionoftheweb.com} offers a graphical overview. Although supporting standards like HTML4 or CSS~2 is not done with one version, but rather an incremental process.} Some of these
-questions are interesting for science such as many problems related
-to layouts and just-in-time compilation (JIT). With OpenSource software
-that makes it easy to find its source and offers good documentation,
-researchers can simply try their ideas without being blocked by 
-having to try to access the source code.
-
-Additionally, such a project might give researchers more time to
-concentrate on the tasks they really want to do rather than spending
-hours by learning \LaTeX{}.
-
-One last reason why this thesis matters is the formula database that
-gets created by users. This database might be used in follow-up work,
-e.~g. a formula spotter for presentations or a math detector for speech.
-
-\section{Time schedule}
-\begin{itemize}
-    \item[70h] Literature research about on-line handwriting recognition 
-               techniques and gamification.
-    \item[5h]  Defining browsers and devices that should get supported
-               and required client side software like HTML5, CSS 3
-               and ECMAScript (better known as JavaScript). Also,
-               required input methods like touchscreens and stylus
-               should be mentioned.
-    \item[20h] Writing use cases. This is includes writing example 
-               formula that the user shoud type and the system should
-               be able to recognize; finding people with different 
-               knowledge of \LaTeX{} and from different fields who 
-               want to participate in user tests.
-    \item[60h] Implementing the core of the application: Handwriting
-               recognition of digits and symbols by using only
-               HTML, CSS and  on the client side. This includes implementing
-               a way for the user to enter new symbols and to correct the
-               symbol that was suggested by the recognition system.
-    \item[20h] Introduce testers that already know \LaTeX{} to the 
-               current system. At this point, the system does only do
-               symbol recognition. The testers should train it, 
-               insert symbols like $a-z, A-Z, 0-9, \alpha-\omega, A-\Omega, \cdot, \circ, \dots$
-    \item[10h] Get feedback by the users. This feedback will not be included
-               in the thesis, but the improvements will get documented.
-    \item[60h] Finding structures and ways how to enter them. Examples
-               of structures that can be nested are sums:
-               \begin{verbatim}\sum_{<some structure>}^{<another strcuture>} <a third structure>\end{verbatim}
-               Implement the recognition of those strucutres.
-    \item[30h] Observe \enquote{fresh} testers while they try to use
-               the system. 
-    \item[70h] Improving the software to fix problems that were found
-               with user tests
-    \item[50h] Fix bugs, improve code quality and readability as well
-               as documentation.
-    \item[45h] Usability testing: Try Hallway testing. The results
-               of these tests get documented and will be part of the
-               bachelor's thesis. If possible, I would like
-               to let the testers use their own devices.
-    \item[10h] Mentioning open questions and ideas how they could be
-               analyzed with the service that was created.
-\end{itemize}
-
-\section{Outline}
-I have described in which steps I would like to write the software, 
-but almost all points include writing the bachelor's thesis document.
-A first draft of the outline could be like this:
-
-\begin{enumerate}
-    \item Introduction
-    \item Definitions
-    \begin{enumerate}
-        \item Hardware: What is available and what is the distribution?
-        \item Software: What is available and what is the distribution?
-        \item Support of standards like HTML, CSS, ECMA-Script, Flash, Cookies, ...
-        \item Choice of hardware, software and standards that should get supported as well as the choice of Libraries and the required server-side software
-        \item Application to the domain of math recognition
-    \end{enumerate}
-    \item On-line handwriting techniques
-    \begin{enumerate}
-        \item Description of techniques in general
-        \item Application to the domain of math recognition
-    \end{enumerate}
-    \item Gamification techniques
-    \begin{enumerate}
-        \item Description of techniques in general
-        \item Application to the domain of math recognition in the web
-    \end{enumerate}
-    \item Software Project
-    \begin{enumerate}
-        \item Structure of the code
-        \item Availability of documentation
-        \item Availability of the service
-    \end{enumerate}
-    \item Summary
-    \begin{enumerate}
-        \item Future Work
-    \end{enumerate}
-\end{enumerate}
-\break
-
-\renewcommand\refname{Related Literature}
-\nocite{*}
-\bibliographystyle{itmalpha}
-\bibliography{literatur}
-
-This literature list is only a list that seems to make sense to me
-by now. As I proceed I might find more usefull sources for the different
-topics. So I might add, but also remove elements from this list.
-Especially for gamification I might read documents from
-\href{http://gamification-research.org/}{gamification-research.org}.
-\end{document}