UNLV Information Science Research Institute quarterly progress report

Technical Report · Thu Mar 31 04:00:00 EST 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10151186· OSTI ID:10151186

Nartker, T A

Sections of this report include: symposium activity, staff activity, document analysis program, text-retrieval program, institute activity, etc. It is believed that as large, complete collections of documents become available in digital libraries, users will demand complete interaction with the information; document access mechanisms will have to grow beyond keywords and full-text searches to include browsing, searching of images, and searching on basis of abstract concepts. It is proposed to study the microform document conversion process, including image preprocessing, recognition, postprocessing for extracting information, and natural language techniques. Characterization of algorithms will allow generation of a system that automatically adapts to a wide range of image quality, thereby allowing large-scale conversion efforts. It is proposed to focus first on the NSF Antarctic database (approx. 55,000 documents).

• Research Organization: Nevada Univ., Las Vegas, NV (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FC08-90NV10872
• OSTI ID: 10151186
• Report Number(s): DOE/NV/10872--T105; ON: DE94011948; BR: DB0102100/DB0511010
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
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