Language Identiﬁcation Using Visual Features Jacob Laurence Newman A thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of East Anglia School of Computing Sciences May, 2011 c This copy of the thesis has been supplied on condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that its copyright rests with the author and that no quotation from the thesis, nor any information derived therefrom, may be published without the author’s prior written consent.