Interactive training for handwriting recognition in historical document collections

Kennard, Douglas J.; Barrett, William A.

doi:10.1117/12.703378

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“…Doug Kennard also did work to demonstrate interactive training of the word warping algorithm for document annotation. 14 Research has been done to provide a methodology for evaluating machine assisted annotation techniques. 15 The tool is employed to show that machine assistance can be used to increase both annotator speed and accuracy.…”

Section: Interactive Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intelligent indexing: a semi-automated, trainable system for field labeling

Clawson

Barrett

2015

SPIE Proceedings

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We present Intelligent Indexing: a general, scalable, collaborative approach to indexing and transcription of non-machinereadable documents that exploits visual consensus and group labeling while harnessing human recognition and domain expertise. In our system, indexers work directly on the page, and with minimal context switching can navigate the page, enter labels, and interact with the recognition engine. Interaction with the recognition engine occurs through preview windows that allow the indexer to quickly verify and correct recommendations. This interaction is far superior to conventional, tedious, inefficient post-correction and editing. Intelligent Indexing is a trainable system that improves over time and can provide benefit even without prior knowledge. A user study was performed to compare Intelligent Indexing to a basic, manual indexing system. Volunteers report that using Intelligent Indexing is less mentally fatiguing and more enjoyable than the manual indexing system. Their results also show that it reduces significantly (30.2%) the time required to index census records, while maintaining comparable accuracy. (a video demonstration is available at

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Section: Interactive Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%