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Maybe of interest... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Antoine Doucet <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:02 AM Subject: [SIG-IRList] CFP: ICDAR2017 Competition on Post-OCR Text Correction To: [log in to unmask] ================= *Call for Participation* ================== *ICDAR2017 Competition on Post-OCR Text Correction * *more information on* *http://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/ICDAR2017PostOCR <http://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/ICDAR2017PostOCR>* ================================================ **** GOAL **** Improve/denoise OCR-ed texts, based on an a original corpus of OCRed documents composed of 12M characters (2.1M tokens) aligned with their corresponding Gold Standard, with an equal share of English- and French-written materials. You can participate in English, French, or both. Given the noisy OCR of printed text, the participants are invited to participate in the two following independent subtasks : *1)* *DETECTION* and *2) CORRECTION*. The participant are encouraged to compute separate scores for the English- and the French-written parts of the collection, allowing for the evaluation of language-specific approaches. * - TASK 1)* Detection of OCR errors: given the raw OCR-ed text, the participants are asked to provide the position and the length of the suspected errors. * - **TASK 2) *Correction of OCR errors: given the OCR errors in their context, the participants are asked to provide, for each error, either a) only their one correction or b) a ranked list of candidates for correction. Providing multiple candidates enables the indirect evaluation of semi-automated techniques, with a human in the loop. **** IMPORTANT DATES **** • Training dataset available online : End-Feb. 2017 • Registration deadline : 30th March 2017 • Result submission : 15th June 2017 • ICDAR2017 Conference : 10th November 2017 A* competition report including both the description of the methodology and a comparative analysis of participants' performances will be submitted for publication at the ICDAR2017 conference.* **** CONTACTS FOR SUBSCRIPTION **** • Guillaume CHIRON (BnF/L3i) : guillaume.chiron(at)bnf.fr • Antoine DOUCET (L3i) : antoine.doucet(at)univ-lr.fr • Jean-Philippe MOREUX (BnF) : jean-philippe.moreux(at)bnf.fr **** WEBSITE **** http://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/ICDAR2017PostOCR