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We discuss development of a word-unigram language model for online handwriting recognition. First, we tokenize a text corpus into words, contrasting with tokenization methods designed for other purposes. Second, we select for our model a subset of the words found, discussing deviations from an N-most-frequent-words approach. From a 600-million-word corpus, we generated a 53,000-word model which eliminates 45% of word-recognition errors made by a character-level-model baseline system. We anticipate that our methods will be applicable to offline recognition as well, and to some extent to other recognizers, such as speech recognizers and video retrieval systems.
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Received: November 1, 2001 / Revised version: July 22, 2002
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Pitrelli, J., Roy, A. Creating word-level language models for large-vocabulary handwriting recognition. IJDAR 5, 126–137 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-002-0087-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-002-0087-3