... Signal ProcessingVolume 2008, Article ID 247354, 13 pagesdoi:10.1155/2008/247354 Research Article Arabic Handwritten Word Recognition Using HMMs with Explicit State DurationA. Benouareth,1A. ... Arabic handwritten word recognition sys-tem based on segmentation-free approach and discrete HMMs with explicit state duration [24]. Three distributions(Gamma, Gauss, and Poisson) for the explicit ... Ennaji, and M. Sellami, HMMs with explicit state duration applied to handwritten Arabic word recognition, ” in Proceedings of the Internat ional Conference onPattern Recognition, vol. 2, pp....