A computational pipeline for crowdsourced transcriptions of Ancient Greek papyrus fragments

Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE Big Data 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 100-105

  Williams, Alex C ^a,b   Wallin, John F ^a   Yu, Haoyu ^b   Perale, Marco ^b,c   Carroll, Hyrum D ^a   Lamblin, Anne Francoise ^b   Fortson, Lucy ^a   Obbink, Dirk ^d   Lintott, Chris J ^d   Brusuelas, James H ^d  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big data; Crowdsourcing; Human computation; Papyrus transcription

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; CROWDSOURCING; PIPELINES;

ANCIENT GREEKS; CITIZEN SCIENCE; EXHAUSTING PROCESS; HUMAN COMPUTATION; IDENTIFICATION PROCESS; PAPYRUS TRANSCRIPTION; REPETITIVE PROCESS; UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD;

TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 84921820531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BigData.2014.7004460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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