Japanese OCR error correction using character shape similarity and statistical language model

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 922-928

  Nagata, Masaaki ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER SETS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERROR CORRECTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CORRECTION METHOD; DELIMITERS; ERRORS CORRECTION; LARGE CHARACTER SET; MATCHING METHODS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SHAPE SIMILARITY; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELLING; WORD MATCHING; WORD SEGMENTATION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 85060538912     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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