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Improving handwriting recognition by the use of semantic information

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Marcus Liwicki,

Hassan Mohamed Abou Eisha,

Andreas DengelAuthors Info & Claims

DAS '10: Proceedings of the 9th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems

Pages 441 - 446

https://doi.org/10.1145/1815330.1815387

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This paper proposes a first attempt to include real semantic information into the process of handwriting recognition. We take advantage of the fact that the main topic of handwritten notes is often known beforehand like in annotation or reviewing tasks. Using state-of-the-art technologies from the knowledge management research area it is possible to store a semantic representation of the user's knowledge in a Personal Information Model (PIMO). This PIMO stores the relations between semantic concepts and documents on the computer. In this paper we extract texts from related documents and concepts of the PIMO. The vocabulary of these texts is then used to aid the recognizer. In our multi-writer experiments, a significant improvement of the recognition accuracy by 8% on the text line level has been achieved.

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Liwicki MForcher BJaeger PDengel A(2012)Koios++Proceedings of the 2012 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems10.1109/DAS.2012.48(17-21)Online publication date: 27-Mar-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/DAS.2012.48
Ebert SLiwicki MDengel A(2010)Ontology-Based Information Extraction from Handwritten DocumentsProceedings of the 2010 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition10.1109/ICFHR.2010.82(483-488)Online publication date: 16-Nov-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICFHR.2010.82

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Liwicki MForcher BJaeger PDengel A(2012)Koios++Proceedings of the 2012 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems10.1109/DAS.2012.48(17-21)Online publication date: 27-Mar-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/DAS.2012.48
Ebert SLiwicki MDengel A(2010)Ontology-Based Information Extraction from Handwritten DocumentsProceedings of the 2010 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition10.1109/ICFHR.2010.82(483-488)Online publication date: 16-Nov-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICFHR.2010.82

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