Using field interdependence to improve correction performance in a transducer-based OCR post-processing system

Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 605-610

  Perez Cortes, Juan Carlos ^a   Llobet, Rafael ^a   Navarro Cerdan, J Ramon ^a   Arlandis, Joaquim ^a  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE INFORMÁTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION PERFORMANCE; FORM PROCESSING; LANGUAGE MODEL; POST-PROCESSING SYSTEM; POSTAL CODE; RECOGNITION RATES; STOCHASTIC ERRORS; WEIGHTED FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TRANSDUCERS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 79951707169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR.2010.99     Document Type: Conference Paper

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