Topic based language models for OCR correction

Proceedings of SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, AND'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 107-112

  Bhardwaj, Anurag ^a   Farooq, Faisal ^a   Cao, Huaigu ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Document analysis; Dynamic lexicon; Language models; OCR correction; Topic categorization

Indexed keywords

CHALLENGING TASKS; DOCUMENT ANALYSES; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; LANGUAGE MODELS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELS; OCR CORRECTION; SUB SYSTEMS; TEST SETS; TOPIC CATEGORIZATION; TRAINING DATUMS; WORD IMAGES; WORD RECOGNITIONS;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IONIZING RADIATION; LINGUISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 57449115943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390749.1390766     Document Type: Conference Paper

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