IMPACT Final Conference

Blog Index

Find below the program for the IMPACT Final Conference and links to  blog-posts associated with each presentation.

Monday 24 October 2011

BLOCK 1: OPERATIONAL CONTEXT

• Welcome and Opening of the Conference by Hildelies Balk-Pennington de Jongh (IMPACT Project Director, KB National library of the Netherlands)
• Strategic Digital Overview by Richard Boulderstone (Director, e-Strategy and Information Systems, The British Library)
• Digitisation challenges & IMPACT achievements so far by Hildelies Balk-Pennington de Jongh (KB)
• Case study: Scanning parameters by Apostolos Antonacopoulos (USAL)
• Applied IMPACT:  Does the new FineReader Engine and Dutch lexicon increase OCR accuracy and production efficiency? A case study by KB and CCS by Claus Gravenhorst (CCS)

BLOCK 2: FRAMEWORK AND EVALUATION

• Experiences in mass digitisation: examining OCR quality by Paul Fogel (University of California, California Digital Library)
• The IMPACT Interoperability Framework – Workflows for OCR and beyond by Clemens Neudecker (KB)
• IMPACT Evaluation tools, ground truth and datasets by Stefan Pletschacher (University of Salford)

BLOCK 3: TOOLS FOR IMPROVED TEXT RECOGNITION

• ABBYY FineReader: IMPACT improvements by Michael Fuchs (ABBYY Europe)
• IBM Adaptive OCR engine and CONCERT Cooperative Correction by Asaf Tzadok (IBM Haifa Research Lab)
• Crowdsourcing in the Digitalkoot project by Majlis Bremer-Laamanen  (National library of Finland)
• The Functional Extension Parser: A Document Understanding Platform by Günter Mühlberger (University of Innsbruck) <this presentation was dropped from the schedule due to late running and was given during the Research Parallel Sessions on 2nd day>
• Postcorrection in IMPACT by Ulrich Reffle (CIS group, University of Munich)

Tuesday 25 October 2011

• Keynote: OCR and the transformation of the Humanities by Gregory Crane (Professor & Chair, Department of Classics, Tufts University)

BLOCK 4: LANGUAGE TOOLS AND RESOURCES

• Overview of language work in IMPACT by Katrien Depuydt (INL)
• Evaluation of lexicon supported OCR and Information Retrieval by Jesse de Does (INL)
• CLARIN and IMPACT: Crossing Paths by Steven Krauwer (CLARIN coordinator, University of Utrecht)

BLOCK 5: IMPACT CENTRE OF COMPETENCE

• The EC Digital Agenda and official launch of the IMPACT Centre of Competence by Khalil Rouhana (European Commission – Director for digital content and cognitive systems in DG Information Society and Media)
• Introduction to the IMPACT Centre of Competence by Aly Conteh (BL) and Hildelies Balk-Pennington de Jongh (KB)

PARALLEL SESSIONS

• Research Session: Presentation and discussion of state of the art research tools for document analysis and OCR, hosted by Apostolos Antonacopoulos (University of Salford).
• Language Session: Presentation and demonstration of the IMPACT language tools & resources in further detail, hosted by Katrien Depuydt (INL)
• Digitisation Tips Session: Meet the expert: questions & answers on digitisation issues, hosted by Aly Conteh (The British Library)