Using deep morphology to improve automatic error detection in Arabic handwriting recognition

ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 875-884

  Habash, Nizar ^a   Roth, Ryan M ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIC HANDWRITING; F-SCORE; LINGUISTIC FEATURES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERROR ANALYSIS;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84859037334     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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