Word segmentation of handwritten text using supervised classification techniques

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-88

  Sun, Yi ^a   Butler, Timothy S ^a   Shafarenko, Alex ^a   Adams, Rod ^a   Loomes, Martin ^a   Davey, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Handwriting; McNemar's test; Mutual information; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

HANDWRITING; MCNEMAR'S TEST; MUTUAL INFORMATION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 33750957103     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2004.10.009     Document Type: Article

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