Bunke Horst Bunke 
Advances In Structural And Syntactic Pattern Recognition — Proceedings Of The International Workshop [PDF ebook] 

Pattern recognition is an active area of research with many applications, some of which have reached commercial maturity. Structural and syntactic methods are very powerful. They are based on symbolic data structures together with matching, parsing, and reasoning procedures that are able to infer interpretations of complex input patterns.This book gives an overview of the latest developments and achievements in the field.