OCR post-processing for low density languages

HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 867-874

  Kolak, Okan ^a   Resnik, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PROCESSING;

COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR); PARALLEL TEXT; POST PROCESSING; POSTPROCESSING METHODS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 70450158506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220575.1220684     Document Type: Conference Paper

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