Maryland at FIRE 2011: Retrieval of OCR'd Bengali

Utpal Garain; David S. Doermann; Douglas W. Oard

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40087-2_20

Maryland at FIRE 2011: Retrieval of OCR'd Bengali

Utpal Garain
, David S. Doermann
, Douglas W. Oard

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Indian Statistical Institute
University of Maryland, College Park

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Abstract

In this year's Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE), the University of Maryland participated in the Retrieval of Indic Script OCRed Text (RISOT) task to experiment with the retrieval of Bengali script OCR'd documents. The experiments focused on evaluating a retrieval strategy motivated by recent work on Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), but which makes use of OCR error modeling rather than parallel text alignment. The approach obtains a probability distribution over substitutions for the actual query terms that possibly correspond to terms in the document representation. The results reported indicate that this is a promising way of using OCR error modeling to improve CLIR.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Multilingual Information Access in South Asian Languages - Second International Workshop, FIRE 2010 and Third International Workshop, FIRE 2011, Revised Selected Papers
Pages	205-213
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40087-2_20
State	Published - 2013
Event	3rd International Workshop on Multilingual Information Access in South Asian Languages, FIRE 2011 - Bombay, India Duration: Dec 2 2011 → Dec 4 2011

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	7536 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	3rd International Workshop on Multilingual Information Access in South Asian Languages, FIRE 2011
Country/Territory	India
City	Bombay
Period	12/2/11 → 12/4/11

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Garain, U., Doermann, D. S., & Oard, D. W. (2013). Maryland at FIRE 2011: Retrieval of OCR'd Bengali. In Multilingual Information Access in South Asian Languages - Second International Workshop, FIRE 2010 and Third International Workshop, FIRE 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 205-213). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 7536 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40087-2_20

Garain, Utpal ; Doermann, David S. ; Oard, Douglas W. / Maryland at FIRE 2011 : Retrieval of OCR'd Bengali. Multilingual Information Access in South Asian Languages - Second International Workshop, FIRE 2010 and Third International Workshop, FIRE 2011, Revised Selected Papers. 2013. pp. 205-213 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Garain, U, Doermann, DS & Oard, DW 2013, Maryland at FIRE 2011: Retrieval of OCR'd Bengali. in Multilingual Information Access in South Asian Languages - Second International Workshop, FIRE 2010 and Third International Workshop, FIRE 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 7536 LNCS, pp. 205-213, 3rd International Workshop on Multilingual Information Access in South Asian Languages, FIRE 2011, Bombay, India, 12/2/11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40087-2_20

Maryland at FIRE 2011: Retrieval of OCR'd Bengali. / Garain, Utpal; Doermann, David S.; Oard, Douglas W.
Multilingual Information Access in South Asian Languages - Second International Workshop, FIRE 2010 and Third International Workshop, FIRE 2011, Revised Selected Papers. 2013. p. 205-213 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 7536 LNCS).

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