• Media type: Report; Electronic Conference Proceeding; E-Book
  • Title: An OCR system for the Unified Northern Alphabet
  • Contributor: Partanen, Niko [Author]; Rießler, Michael [Author]; Pirinen, Tommi A. [Author]; Kaalep, Heiki-Jaan [Author]; Tyers, Francis M. [Author]; Association for Computational Linguistics [Author]
  • imprint: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-1-948087-92-6
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  • Description: Partanen N, Rießler M. An OCR system for the Unified Northern Alphabet. In: Pirinen TA, Kaalep H-J, Tyers FM, Association for Computational Linguistics, eds. The fifth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages . Tartu: Association for Computational Linguistics; 2019: 77-89. ; This paper presents experiments done in order to build a functional OCR model for the Unified Northern Alphabet. This writing system was used between 1931 and 1937 for 16 (Uralic and non-Uralic) minority languages spoken in the Soviet Union. The character accuracy of the developed model reaches more than 98% and clearly shows cross-linguistic applicability. The tests described here therefore also include general guidelines for the amount of training data needed to boot-strap an OCR system under similar conditions.
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution (CC BY)