Title
Using lexical similarity in handwritten word recognition
Abstract
Recognition using only visual evidence cannot always be successful due to limitations of information and resources available during training. Considering relation among lexicon entries is sometimes useful for decision making. In this paper we present a method to capture lexical similarity of a lexicon and reliability of a character recognizer which serve to capture the dynamism of the environment. A parameter, lexical similarity, is defined by measuring these two factors as edit distance between lexicon entries and separability of each character's recognition results. Our experiments show that a utility function considering lexical similarity in a decision stage can enhance the performance of a conventional word recognizer
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/CVPR.2000.854813
CVPR
Keywords
Field
DocType
recognition,training,lexical similarity,handwritten character recognition,decision stage,handwritten word recognition,word recognizer,text analysis,shape,engines,image recognition,image segmentation,prototypes,handwriting recognition,feature extraction
Edit distance,Dynamism,Lexical similarity,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Intelligent word recognition,Pattern recognition,Intelligent character recognition,Document processing,Word recognition,Speech recognition,Lexicon
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
1
1063-6919
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-0662-3
1
0.39
References 
Authors
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaehwa Park1659.50
Venu Govindaraju23521422.00