Chinese Pairing Party Image - Maynooth University
Reading research has undergone a significant transformation in the last 10-15 years with the emergence of computational modelling as a tool for theory development and testing.

However, one of the limitations of most current approaches is the focus on Western alphabetic writing systems.

Professor Ronan Reilly in the Department of Computer Science is exploring recent empirical and modelling work being carried out on an important non-alphabetic writing system, Chinese.