Automatic Abbreviation Detection in Medieval Medical Documents
Objekt
Titel
Automatic Abbreviation Detection in Medieval Medical Documents
Urheber
C. Malagón
R. Rizky
Y. Kim
F. Marzal
L. Izquierdo
Thema
Handwriting recognition
automatic abbreviation detection
automatic palaeographic transcription
character detection
document composition
document conservation
handwriting recognition
histogram-based method
manuscript deciphering
manuscript transcribing
medieval handwriting
medieval medical document
medieval medical manuscript
Zusammenfassung
Automatic palaeographic transcription of medieval manuscripts is a challenging task. Transcribing and deciphering these manuscripts is considered complicated and problematic, especially due to particular characteristics of medieval handwriting and the composition and conservation of these documents. In this paper, a new problem in handwriting recognition is addressed: the detection of abbreviations in medieval medical manuscripts. We propose a histogram-based method to detect these specific kinds of characters. The results achieved with real medieval medical manuscripts are very promising, and it opens new research lines in handwriting recognition.
Datum
Sept 2012
Is Part Of
2012 International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
presented at
2012 International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
Seiten
337-342
doi
10.1109/ICFHR.2012.184
