2018 EMNLP EMNLP 2018

Combining Human and Machine Transcriptions on the Zooniverse Platform

Abstract

AbstractTranscribing handwritten documents to create fully searchable texts is an essential part of the archival process. Traditional text recognition methods, such as optical character recognition (OCR), do not work on handwritten documents due to their frequent noisiness and OCR’s need for individually segmented letters. Crowdsourcing and improved machine models are two modern methods for transcribing handwritten documents.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science and Machine Learning
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — handwritten document recognition
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — optical character recognition
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Speech & Audio