Papers by Robert Shoemaker
A Language Modelling Approach to Quality Assessment of OCR’ed Historical Text (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a language model-based approach is used to score the quality of OCR transcriptions in the British Library Newspapers corpus . a corpus of genre-adjacent texts captures the common and legal parlance of nineteenth-century London . |
| Approach: | They propose a language model-based approach to score the quality of OCR transcriptions in the British Library Newspapers corpus parts 1 and 2 . they aim to link newspapers of crime in nineteenth-century London to the Digital Panopticon . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach is based on the Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online corpus, which captures the common and legal parlance of nineteenth-century London. |