A multiple classifier approach to detect Chinese character recognition errors

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 723-738

  Hung, K Y ^a   Luk, Robert W P ^a   Yeung, Daniel S ^a   Chung, Korris F L ^a   Shu, Wenhao ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Error detection; Pattern recognition and language modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ERROR CORRECTION; ERROR DETECTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION ERRORS; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION AND LANGUAGE MODELING; WORD MATCHING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 13644255613     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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