NDLI: ICFHR2014 Competition on Word Recognition from Historical Documents: ANncestry Word REcognition from Segmented Historical Documents (ANWRESH)

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Reese, J. Murdock, M. Reid, S. Hamilton, B.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Content Syst. Group, Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA (Reese, J.; Murdock, M.; Reid, S.; Hamilton, B.)
Abstract	This paper describes the ANWRESH (Anncestry Word Recognition from Segmented Historical Documents)competition held at the 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR-2014). This competition uses the ANWRESH dataset selected from the 1930 US Census collection including word bounding box and field lexicon data. Five teams submitted systems for recognizing six fields including Surname, Given Name(s), Age, Birth Place, Marital Status, and Relation. Results are reported, along with brief descriptions of each system.
Starting Page	803
Ending Page	808
File Size	851799
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479943357
ISSN	21676445
e-ISBN	9781479943340
DOI	10.1109/ICFHR.2014.140
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-09-01
Publisher Place	Greece
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Hidden Markov models Handwriting recognition Training Automation Accuracy Image recognition Feature extraction ANWRESH handwriting recognition competition segmented word recognitition offline historical documents
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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ICFHR2014 Competition on Word Recognition from Historical Documents: ANncestry Word REcognition from Segmented Historical Documents (ANWRESH)