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Prototyping structural description using an inductive learning program
Author(s) -
Amin Adnan
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
international journal of intelligent systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.291
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1098-111X
pISSN - 0884-8173
DOI - 10.1002/1098-111x(200012)15:12<1103::aid-int1>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - computer science , variation (astronomy) , automation , artificial intelligence , variety (cybernetics) , process (computing) , theme (computing) , construct (python library) , machine learning , quality (philosophy) , sample (material) , natural language processing , world wide web , engineering , programming language , astrophysics , chemistry , chromatography , mechanical engineering , philosophy , physics , epistemology
Character recognition systems can contribute tremendously to the advancement of the automation process and can improve the interaction between man and machine in many applications, including office automation, cheque verification and a large variety of banking, business and data entry applications. The main theme of this paper is the automatic recognition of hand‐printed Arabic characters using machine learning. Conventional methods have relied on hand‐constructed dictionaries which are tedious to construct and difficult to make tolerant to variation in writing styles. The advantages of machine learning are that it can generalize over the large degree of variation between writing styles and recognition rules can be constructed by example. The system was tested on a sample of handwritten characters from several individuals whose writing ranged from acceptable to poor in quality and the correct average recognition rate obtained using cross‐validation was 89.65%. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.