Issue No. 01 - January (1984 vol. 6)
ISSN: 0162-8828
pp: 105-111
Abdelwaheb Belaid , Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Group, C.R.I.N., University of Nancy 1, 54506 Vandoeuvre, France.
Jean-Paul Haton , Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Group, C.R.I.N., University of Nancy 1, 54506 Vandoeuvre, France.
ABSTRACT
Mathematical formulas are good examples of two-dimensional patterns as well as pictures or graphics. The use of syntactic methods is useful for interpreting such complex patterns. In this paper we propose a system for the interpretation of 2-D mathematic formulas based on a syntactic parser. This system is able to recognize a large class of 2-D mathematic formulas written on a graphic tablet. It starts the parsing by localization of the principal'' operator in the formula and attempts to partition it into subexpressions which are similarly analyzed by looking for a starting character. The generalized parser used in the system has been developed in our group for continuous speech recognition and picture interpretation.
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J. Haton and A. Belaid, "A Syntactic Approach for Handwritten Mathematical Formula Recognition," in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol. 6, no. , pp. 105-111, 1984.
doi:10.1109/TPAMI.1984.4767483