23.4.6.3.1 Cursive Script, Word Level Recognition, Language Model

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Cursive Character Recognition. Word Recognition. Word Spotting. For more related to word level analysis in printed documents: See also Word Level Recognition, Language Models.

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And:
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And:
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ICDAR97(Poster) 9708
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Gader, P.D., Mohamed, M.A., Keller, J.M.,
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Mohamed, M.A., Gader, P.,
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Vinciarelli, A.[Alessandro], Bengio, S.[Samy], Bunke, H.[Horst],
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Handwritten text recognition; Rejection strategies; Statistical language model BibRef

Bertolami, R.[Roman], Bunke, H.[Horst],
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Bunke, H., Roth, M., Schukat-Talamazzini, E.G.,
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Earlier:
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Word image matching using dynamic time warping,
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And:
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Holistic cursive script recognition; Perceptual features; Convolutional feature extraction BibRef

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Character recognition; Cursive text; Historical text BibRef

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PR(42), No. 12, December 2009, pp. 3374-3382,.
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Word spotting; Information retrieval; Handwriting recognition BibRef

Li, Q.[Qing], Chen, Y.P.[Yuanzhu Peter],
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Text snippet extraction; Personalization; Language model; Information retrieval; Natural language processing; Pattern discovery; Hidden Markov Model BibRef

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Rusu, A., Govindaraju, V.,
A human interactive proof algorithm using handwriting recognition,
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Jaeger, S., Ma, H., Doermann, D.,
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Sas, J.[Jerzy], Markowska-Kaczmar, U.[Urszula],
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Ma, H.F.[Huan-Feng], Doermann, D.,
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ICDAR05(II: 814-818).
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Earlier:
Adaptive word style classification using a gaussian mixture model,
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Dupre, X., Augustin, E.,
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Determination of the number of writing variants with an HMM based cursive word recognition system,
ICDAR03(119-123).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. 0311
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Model length adaptation of an HMM based cursive word recognition system,
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IEEE Top Reference. 0209
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Introducing termination probabilities to HMM,
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Al-Ohali, Y., Cheriet, M., Suen, C.Y.,
Efficient estimation of pen trajectory from off-line handwritten words,
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Tay, Y.H.[Yong Haur], Lallican, P.M., Khalid, M., Knerr, S., Viard-Gaudin, C.,
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ICDAR01(154-158).
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ICDAR01(168-172).
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ICIP97(II: 378-381).
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Earlier: A2, A1, A3:
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Buse, R., Liu, Z.Q.A.[Zhi-Qi-Ang],
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Plessis, B., Sicsu, A., Heute, L., Lecolinet, E., Debon, O., and Moreau, J.V.,
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Aoki, K., Yamaya, Y.,
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Chapter on OCR, Document Analysis and Character Recognition Systems continues in
Cursive Script, Text Line Segmentation, Script Line, Segmentation, Text Line Extraction .


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