UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium

September 14, 2005, 11:00am, AVW 3258

ABSTRACT

We present a lexicon-free post-processing method for optical character recognition (OCR), implemented using weighted finite state machines. We evalute the technique in a number of scenarios relevant for natural language processing, inlcuidng creation of new OCR capabilities for low density languages, improvement of OCR performance for a native commercial system, acquisition of knowledge from a foreign-language dictionary, creation of a parallel text, and machine translation from OCR output.

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