Computational Transcription of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts and Crowdsourcing their Corrections
Computational Transcription of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts and Crowdsourcing their Corrections
Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies | Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Hornbake Library,
MITH Conference Room
Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra will present the initial results on two computational projects on Medieval Hebrew manuscripts:
- "Sofer Mahir", applies an HTR (handwritten text recognition) pipeline constructed at Scripta-PSL to the major manuscripts of the classical compositions of the tannaitic period of Rabbinic Judaism.
- "Tikkoun Sofrim", applies the pipeline to manuscripts of early Medieval Tanhuma-Yelamdenu Midrashim, we have developed a crowdsourcing platform that permits citizen scientists to suggest corrections to the automatic transcription.
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