The use of context in pattern recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1978, Pages 189-204

  Toussaint, Godfried T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Context Artificial intelligence; Error correction; Image classification; Natural language understanding; Pattern recognition; Scene analysis; Speech recognition; Spelling correction; Text processing

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSIS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPEECH;

EID: 0018179124     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(78)90027-4     Document Type: Article

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