Optimizing the integration of a statistical language model in HMM based offline handwritten text recognition

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 541-544

  Zimmermann, Matthias ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OFFLINE HANDWRITTEN TEXT RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODEL; WORD DELETION; WORD INSERTION PENALTY (WIP);

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECODING; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

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EID: 10044276756     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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