An Introduction to Linguistic Pattern Recognition,
Abstract
The paper briefly reviews the linguistic concepts 'sentence', 'language', 'grammar' and 'parse' as applied to strings of characters. Various possibilities are then suggested for extending these linguistic concepts from the domain of character strings to the domain of distributions of characters in two or more dimensions. Several research projects are discussed which have attempted to use a linguistic approach to the recognition of 'real-world' patterns. The emphasis is on practical applications of linguistic theory to pattern recognition, rather than on linguistic theory itself. The applications discussed include spark chamber photo analysis, chromosome analysis in photomicrographs, and analysis of two-dimensional mathematical expressions. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0735076
Entities
People
- Robert H. Anderson
Organizations
- RAND Corporation