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Title: UNLV Information Science Research Institute quarterly progress report

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

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
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 31 Mar 1994
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English