Effective training of a neural network character classifier for word recognition

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 807-813

  Yaeger, Larry ^a   Lyon, Richard ^a   Webb, Brandyn ^b  

^a APPLE INC   (United States)

^b The Future   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MICROCOMPUTERS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

APPLE COMPUTERS; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; OUTPUT ERRORS; ROBUST RECOGNITION; WORD RECOGNITION; WORD SEGMENTATION;

VOCABULARY CONTROL;

EID: 56149104083     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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