Automatic language identification system for multilingual optica

Details Automatic language identification system for multilingual optica Automatic language identification system for multilingual optica

1997-09-15

2000-04-04

Isen, Forester W.

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Linguistics

704 9, 382229, G06F 1728, G06K 972

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060472510

ABSTRACT:
The disclosed invention utilizes a dictionary-based approach to identify languages within different zones in a multi-lingual document. As a first step, a document image is segmented into various zones, regions and word tokens, using suitable geometric properties. Within each zone, the word tokens are compared to dictionaries associated with various candidate languages, and the language that exhibits the highest confidence factor is initially identified as the language of the zone. Subsequently, each zone is further split into regions. The language for each region is then identified, using the confidence factors for the words of that region. For any language determination having a low confidence value, the previously determined language of the zone is employed to assist the identification process.

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