Differentiating between oriental and European scripts by statistical features

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-78

  Lam, Louisa ^a,b,c,d,e   Ding, Jie ^a,f   Suen, Ching Y ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Phi Beta Kappa   (Hong Kong)

^f CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asian scripts; Chinese characters; Language differentiation; Oriental languages; Roman scripts; Script classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 11744350325     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/s0218001498000063     Document Type: Article

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