Transcription alignment of Latin manuscripts using hidden Markov models

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 29-36

  Fischer, Andreas ^a   Frinken, Volkmar ^a   Fornés, Alicia ^b   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

handwriting recognition; hidden Markov models; transcription alignment

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ACCURACY; ALIGNMENT SYSTEM; CHARACTER MODELS; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HIGH QUALITY; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; HUMAN READERS; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TRANSCRIPTION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 80054787965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2037342.2037348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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