Digitised historical text: Does it have to be mediOCRe?

11th Conference on Natural Language Processing, KONVENS 2012: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Processing 2012

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 401-409

  Alex, Bea ^a   Grover, Claire ^a   Klein, Ewan ^a   Tobin, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CORRECTIONS; GOLD STANDARDS; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR); TEXT MINING;

COMMERCE; DATA MINING; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893337898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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