Shortest Path Segmentation: A Method For Training a Neural Network to Recognize Character Strings
- Chris J.C. Burges ,
- O. Matan ,
- Y. Le Cun ,
- J.S. Denker ,
- L.D. Jackel ,
- C.E. Stenard ,
- C.R. Nohl ,
- J.I. Ben
IJCNN Conference Proceedings |
We describe a method which combines dynamic programming and a neural net recognizer for segmenting and recognizing character strings. The method selects the optimal consistent combination of cuts from a set of candidate cuts generated using heuristics.