The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP) has been recently proposed, and accounts for interdependent document relevance when ranking. However, to be instantiated, the QPRP...
Segmentation of ancient documents is challenging. In the worst cases, text characters become fragmented as the results of strong degradation processes. New active contour methods ...
The recognition of handwritten characters, words, and text arouses great interest today. To develop the best working system is subject of many papers published. With this paper, m...
In this paper we present an innovative two-stage adaptation approach for handwriting recognition that is based on clustering of similar pages in the training data. In our approach...
The effects of word recognition errors (WRE) in Spoken Document Retrieval have been well studied and well reported in recent Information Retrieval (IR) literature. Much less exper...