Creation of data resources and design of an evaluation test bed for Devanagari script recognition

Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 55-61

  Setlur, S ^a   Kompalli, S ^a   Ramanaprasad, V ^a   Govindaraju, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Dictionaries; Natural languages; Optical character recognition software; Shape; Software libraries; Statistical analysis; Testing; Text analysis; Text recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; EQUIPMENT TESTING; GLOSSARIES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE TESTING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TESTING;

NATURAL LANGUAGES; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; SHAPE; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES; TEXT ANALYSIS; TEXT RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 80054798729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RIDE.2003.1249846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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