Extracting person names from diverse and noisy OCR text

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 19-26

  Packer, Thomas L ^a   Lutes, Joshua F ^a   Stewart, Aaron P ^a   Embley, David W ^a   Ringger, Eric K ^a   Seppi, Kevin D ^a   Jensen, Lee S ^b  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

^b Ancestry   (United States)

Author keywords

CRF; Information extraction; MEMM; Named entity recognition; NER; Noisy OCR; Scanned document images

Indexed keywords

CRF; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; MEMM; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NER; NOISY OCR; SCANNED DOCUMENT IMAGES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 78651288263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871840.1871845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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