Improvements in hidden Markov model based Arabic OCR

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Prasad, Rohit ^a   Saleem, Shirin ^a   Kamali, Matin ^a   Meermeier, Ralf ^a   Natarajan, Prem ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ARABIC DOCUMENT; BASELINE CONFIGURATIONS; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; HIGHER-ORDER; LANGUAGE MODEL; RELATIVE REDUCTION; SCRIPT-INDEPENDENT; WORD ERROR RATE;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 77957937222     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2008.4761446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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