Patent ID: 6567548
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A method for training a handwriting recognition system, comprising the steps of:defining a compound character set, the compound character set comprising one or more character sequences that are to be modeled as compound characters; generating compound character data using the compound character set and a training corpus of handwriting data associated with an initial handwriting recognition system; and retraining the initial recognition system using the compound character data to generate a new recognition system having compound character models, wherein the compound character models comprise a statistical model of each character sequence in the compound character set modeled as a single character, wherein the step of generating compound character data comprises: obtaining character alignment data from the initial handwriting recognition system; identifying each character sequence in each word in the training corpus that corresponds to a defined compound character in the compound character set using the character alignment data; combining the character alignment data associated with each character of the identified character sequence; and duplicating the combined character alignment data to generate the compound character data.