Using a statistical language model to improve the performance of an HMM-based cursive handwriting recognition system

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 65-90

  Marti, U V ^a   Bunke, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bigram statistics; Cursive handwriting recognition; Hidden Markov model; Offline handwriting recognition; Statistical language model; Unconstrained sentence recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BIGRAM STATISTCS; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM);

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035247074     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001401000848     Document Type: Article

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