Combining neural networks and context-driven search for online, printed handwriting recognition in the Newton. (messagepad by Apple Computer, Inc.)(Innovative Applications of AI)

From: AI Magazine | Date: March 22, 1998| Author: Lyon, Richard F.; Webb, Brandyn J.; Yaeger, Larry S. | Copyright information

While online handwriting recognition is an area of long-standing and ongoing research, the recent emergence of portable, pen-based computers has focused urgent attention on usable, practical solutions. We discuss a combination and improvement of classical methods to produce robust recognition of hand-printed English text for a recognizer shipping in new models of Apple Computer's Newton Messagepad and Emate. Combining an artificial neural network (ANN) as a character classifier with a context...

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