Title
Automatic Alphabet Recognition
Abstract
The last step of the Information Retrieval process is to display the found documents to the user. However, some difficulties might occur at that point. English texts are usually written in the ASCII standard. Unlike the English language, many languages have different character sets, and do not have one standard. This plurality of standards causes problems, especially in a web environment, where one may download a document with an unknown standard. This paper suggests a purely automatic way of finding the standard which was used by the document writer based on the statistical letters distribution in the language. We developed a vector-space-based method that creates frequencies vectors for each letter of the language and then matches a new document's vectors to the pre-computed templates. The algorithm was applied on various types of corpora in Hebrew, Russian and English, and provides an efficient solution to the stated problem in most cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1023/B:INRT.0000048495.64628.ea
Inf. Retr.
Keywords
Field
DocType
natural language alphabet,characters set,letters' mapping
Information retrieval,Computer science,Hebrew,Download,Coding (social sciences),Natural language,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Template,ASCII,Character encoding,Alphabet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
1
1573-7659
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maayan Geffet11386.77
Yair Wiseman215814.60
Dror G. Feitelson33997381.74