Turkish handwritten text recognition: a case of agglutinative languages

Berrin A. Yanikoglu; Alisher Kholmatov

doi:10.1117/12.476045

13 January 2003 Turkish handwritten text recognition: a case of agglutinative languages

Berrin A. Yanikoglu, Alisher Kholmatov

Proceedings Volume 5010, Document Recognition and Retrieval X; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.476045
Event: Electronic Imaging 2003, 2003, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

We describe a system for recognizing unconstrained Turkish handwritten text. Turkish has agglutinative morphology and theoretically an infinite number of words that can be generated by adding more suffixes to the word. This makes lexicon-based recognition approaches, where the most likely word is selected among all the alternatives in a lexicon, unsuitable for Turkish. We describe our approach to the problem using a Turkish prefix recognizer. First results of the system demonstrates the promise of this approach, with top-10 word recognition rate of about 40% for a small test data of mixed handprint and cursive writing. The lexicon-based approach with a 17,000 word-lexicon (with test words added) achieves 56% top-10 word recognition rate.

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Berrin A. Yanikoglu and Alisher Kholmatov "Turkish handwritten text recognition: a case of agglutinative languages", Proc. SPIE 5010, Document Recognition and Retrieval X, (13 January 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.476045

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