On the influence of vocabulary size and language models in unconstrained handwritten text recognition

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 260-265

  Marti, U V ^a   Bunke, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Handwriting recognition; Hidden Markov models; Perplexity; Statistical language modelling; Unconstrained text recognition; Vocabulary size

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TRELLIS CODES;

HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; PERPLEXITY; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELLING; TEXT RECOGNITION; VOCABULARY SIZE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0012435529     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953795     Document Type: Article

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