Parsing N-best lists of handwritten sentences

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 572-576

  Zimmermann, Matthias ^a   Chappelier, Jean Cédric ^b   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Handwritten sentence recognition; N best list reordering; Natural language parsing

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

BI-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; LINGUISTIC RESOURCES; N-BEST LIST; NATURAL LANGUAGE PARSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; OFF-LINE RECOGNITION; SENTENCE RECOGNITION; STOCHASTIC CONTEXT FREE GRAMMAR;

CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS;

EID: 33645152973     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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