Human and Computer Readings: towards a Collaborative Research

Claire Clivaz (1)

1 SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics [Lausanne]

This document is an unsuccessful research project written and submitted anonymously in March 2020 by Claire Clivaz (SIB, Lausanne, CH). The average of acceptation was 13%. Scholars will find in this document a useful state of the art about OCR/HTR methodologies, as well as the still unexplored suggestion to compare the results of these methodologies with the scholarly human reading. Short summary: The research focus of this SPARK project, entitled Human and Computer Readings: towards a Collaborative Research (HCR), is to study the impact of combining scholarly human reading and automated computer reading on collaborative research. The test case will be done on a trilingual biblical manuscript, the Gr.Z.11(=379), early 13th century, written in Latin, Greek, and Arabic (Devreesse, 1955; Moni, 1985; Piemontese, 2002; NN, [Ref1] & [Ref2]). The HCR project will compare human and computer readings in their efficiency, error, and correction capacities by transcribing Gr.Z.11(=379). This multilingual and complex manuscript is an ideal test case for HCR.

Mots clés: OCR; HTR; Kraken; Transkribus; Pylaia; GA 460; Gr.Z.11(=379); Marciana Library

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Informatique [cs]; Religions

Claire Clivaz. Human and Computer Readings: towards a Collaborative Research. 2020. ⟨hal-03462680⟩