A Weighted Finite-State Transducer (WFST)-based language model for online Indic script handwriting recognition

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 599-602

  Chowdhury, Suhan ^a   Garain, Utpal ^a   Chattopadhyay, Tanushyam ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

Author keywords

Finite State Transducer (FST); Handwrriting recognition; Indic scripts; Language model

Indexed keywords

FINITE STATE TRANSDUCERS; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRRITING RECOGNITION; INDIC SCRIPTS; LANGUAGE MODEL; OFFLINE; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES; WEIGHTED FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS; WORD RECOGNITION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FINITE AUTOMATA;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355186364     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.126     Document Type: Conference Paper

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