Combining Character-Based Bigrams with Word-Based Bigrams in Contextual Postprocessing for Chinese Script Recognition

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 297-309

  Li, Yuanxiang ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^a   Ding, Xiaoqing ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Chinese character recognition; contextual postprocessing; efficiency of candidate set; forward backward search; Languages; Performance; statistical language model

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042574909     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/795458.795461     Document Type: Article

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