N-gram language models for offline handwritten text recognition

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 203-208

  Zimmermann, Matthias ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HANDWRITTEN TEXT RECOGNITION; OFFLINE RECOGNITION; RECOGNIZERS; STOCHASTIC CONTEXT FREE GRAMMERS (SCFG);

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 18044387782     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWFHR.2004.71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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