Non-interactive OCR post-correction for giga-scale digitization projects

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4919 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 617-630

  Reynaert, Martin ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERROR CORRECTION; LINGUISTICS; SECURITY OF DATA; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

CORRECTION MECHANISM; FALSE POSITIVES; FILTERING TECHNIQUES; HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS; INTELLIGENT TEXT PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LEVENSHTEIN DISTANCES; NEWSPAPER ARTICLES; NON-INTERACTIVE; PERFORMANCE SCORES; TEXT CORPORA;

IONIZING RADIATION;

EID: 49949085967     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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