PT Unknown AU Marçal Rusiñol Josep Llados TI The Role of the Users in Handwritten Word Spotting Applications: Query Fusion and Relevance Feedback BT 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition PY 2012 BP 55 EP 60 DI 10.1109/ICFHR.2012.282 AB In this paper we present the importance of including the user in the loop in a handwritten word spotting framework. Several off-the-shelf query fusion and relevance feedback strategies have been tested in the handwritten word spotting context. The increase in terms of precision when the user is included in the loop is assessed using two datasets of historical handwritten documents and a baseline word spotting approach based on a bag-of-visual-words model. ER