A character recognizer for Turkish language

Abstract

This paper presents particularly a contextual postprocessing subsystem for a Turkish machine printedcharacter recognition system. The contextual postprocessing subsystem is based on positional binary 3-gram statistics for Turkish language, an error correctorparser and a lexicon, which contains root words and theinflected forms of the root words. Error corrector parseris used for correcting CR alternatives using TurkishMorphology.