Self-training strategies for handwriting word recognition

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

Volumn 5633 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 291-300

  Frinken, Volkmar ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANK CHECKS; GROUND TRUTH; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SELF-TRAINING; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; TRAINING DATA; TRAINING EXAMPLE; TRAINING SETS; UNLABELED DATA; WORD RECOGNITION;

COST REDUCTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SUPERVISED LEARNING; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 76249119082     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03067-3_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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