11.2637, Qs: Korean Corpus, Cyrillic OCR

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Subject: 11.2637, Qs: Korean Corpus, Cyrillic OCR

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Date:  Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:25:46 +0300
From:  "Elena Rudnitskaya" <erudnits at mtu-net.ru>
Subject:  Korean Corpus

2)
Date:  Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:19:03 EST
From:  JeffPower at aol.com
Subject:  Cyrillic OCR

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Date:  Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:25:46 +0300
From:  "Elena Rudnitskaya" <erudnits at mtu-net.ru>
Subject:  Korean Corpus

Dear Linguists,

I am looking for a Korean Corpus in the Internet. If you happen to know any,
please let me know its www-address.

Elena Rudnitskaya
erudnits at mtu-net.ru


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Date:  Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:19:03 EST
From:  JeffPower at aol.com
Subject:  Cyrillic OCR

Ladies and gentlemen:

I am involved in a large project to develop, modify, or obtain an OCR
tool that can recognize strings of handwritten Cyrillic characters that were
recorded in columns on ledgers or logs. Data on a given CD would be for a
given year, in sequence chronologically by type of event (i.e., birth, death,
divorce, marriage).  Data would include given names, surnames, family
information, dates of birth, death, towns, etc.  Such a tool would enable
users to search for their family surnames and towns for family research
purposes. The software would have to be capable of recognizing most
reasonably well-formed handwritten Cyrillic characters.

The data will be CD-ROM formatted, after being transferred from microfilms of
paper records.  I may have some influence over the preparation of the CD's,
so any suggestions for formatting requirements would be most helpful.

I would be interested in hearing from anyone knowing about these issues. What
can you tell me about the software used for these purposes, any of your own
experiences with or knowledge of such projects, and any advice that you can
give on how I should proceed?

Thanks!!
Jeff Miller
E-mail: singingtm at aol.com, or, jeff at leaderfun.com
Maryland, US

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