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Computational Transcription of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts and Crowdsourcing their Corrections

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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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Add to Calendar 04/02/19 12:30 PM 04/02/19 1:30 PM America/New_York Computational Transcription of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts and Crowdsourcing their Corrections

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.

Click here for more information on the speaker.

 

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