Contextual post-processing based on the confusion matrix in offline handwritten Chinese script recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1901-1912

  Li, Yuan Xiang ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^a   Ding, Xiaoqing ^b   Liu, Changsong ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Approximate word matching; Candidate expansion; Chinese character recognition; Combination; Confusion matrix; Contextual post processing; Statistical language model

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN MATCHING;

CONTEXTUAL POST-PROCESSING; SCRIPT RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 3042688014     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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