Databases and competitions: Strategies to improve Arabic recognition systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4768 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 82-103

  Märgner, Volker ^a   El Abed, Haikal ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; WORD PROCESSING;

ARABIC RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; DATASETS; HANDWRITTEN WORDS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 41549085997     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78199-8_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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