Performing information extraction to improve OCR error detection in semi-structured historical documents

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 67-74

  Packer, Thomas L ^a  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

error detection; hidden Markov model; information extraction; OCR; optical character recognition; semi structured text

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; DETECTION APPROACH; DICTIONARY MATCHING; DOCUMENT IMAGES; F-MEASURE; GENERAL APPROACH; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; POST PROCESS; SEMI-STRUCTURED; SEMI-STRUCTURED TEXT; WORD MODELS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TRANSCRIPTION;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 80054779191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2037342.2037354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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