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2009
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Cohen's class distributions for skew angle estimation in noisy ancient Arabic documents
This paper presents an adaptive method for the skew angle estimation of noisy handwritten Arabic documents using the energy distributions of Cohen’s class. The presence of noise...
Nazih Ouwayed, Abdel Belaïd, François ...
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2009
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Discovering voter preferences in blogs using mixtures of topic models
In this paper we propose a new approach to capture the inclination towards a certain election candidate from the contents of blogs and to explain why that inclination may be so. T...
Pradipto Das, Rohini K. Srihari, Smruthi Mukund
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2009
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Edge noise in document images
A degradation model that describes many image degradations produced by desktop scanning is used to study the edge noise that is present in bilevel document images. The standard de...
Craig McGillivary, Chris Hale, Elisa H. Barney Smi...
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2009
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Accessing the content of Greek historical documents
In this paper, we propose an alternative method for accessing the content of Greek historical documents printed during the 17th and 18th centuries by searching words directly in d...
Anastasios L. Kesidis, Eleni Galiotou, Basilios Ga...
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2009
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Digital weight watching: reconstruction of scanned documents
A web-portal providing access to over 250.000 scanned and OCRed cultural heritage documents is analyzed. The collection consists of the complete Dutch Hansard from 1917 to 1995. E...
Tim Gielissen, Maarten Marx
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2009
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Tools for monitoring, visualizing, and refining collections of noisy documents
Developing better systems for document image analysis requires understanding errors, their sources, and their effects. The interactions between various processing steps are comple...
Daniel P. Lopresti, George Nagy
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2009
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Kernel-based relation extraction from investigative data
In a specific process of business intelligence, i.e. investigation on organized crime, empirical language processing technologies can play a crucial role. In the data used on inve...
Cristina Giannone, Roberto Basili, Chiara Del Vesc...
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2009
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A comprehensive evaluation methodology for noisy historical document recognition techniques
In this paper, we propose a new comprehensive methodology in order to evaluate the performance of noisy historical document recognition techniques. We aim to evaluate not only the...
Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Georgios Louloudis, Basili...