Quantifying the impact of dirty OCR on historical text analysis: Eighteenth Century Collections Online as a case study.

This article aims to quantify the impact optical character recognition (OCR) has on the quantitative analysis of historical documents. Using Eighteenth Century Collections Online as a case study, we first explore and explain the differences between the OCR corpus and its keyed-in counterpart, create...

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Published in:	Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 825 - 844
Main Authors:	Hill, Mark J, Hengchen, Simon
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Dec2019
Subjects:	Eighteenth century Historical analysis Optical character recognition Digital humanities Attribution of authorship Vector spaces
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost