Monday 24 October 2011
Registration starts from 9.00 onwards. The conference will be opened at 10.00.
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)
- The IMPACT Knowledge Bank by Neil Fitzgerald (BL)
- 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)
- Postcorrection in IMPACT by Ulrich Reffle (CIS group, University of Munich)
Evening Social Event: Dinner at Smithy's, Leek Street, London
Smithy's Restaurant and Wine Bar is within walking distance of The British Library. This dinner is included in the registration fee. More information: http://www.smithyslondon.com/
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
- Each session will be held twice so participants have the option to attend 2 out of 3 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)
The final wrap up of the conference will end at 17.30
