Handwritten address recognition with open vocabulary using character n-grams

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 357-362

  Brakensiek, Anja ^a   Rottland, Jörg ^b   Rigoll, Gerhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Siemens Dematic AG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS RECOGNITION; DIFFERENT SIZES; LANGUAGE MODEL; POST PROCESSING; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SINGLE PARTS; TIED-MIXTURES; VOCABULARY RECOGNITION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 18044383807     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWFHR.2002.1030936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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