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BL Demo Day - July2011 - (9) IMPACT Interoperability and Evaluation Framework
Slides from Clemens Neudecker's presentation on the IMPACT Interoperability and Evaluation Framework within the IMPACT project at the British Library Demo-day on the 12th July 2011.
Slides from Clemens Neudecker's presentation on the IMPACT Interoperability and Evaluation Framework within the IMPACT project at the British Library Demo-day on the 12th July 2011.
BL Demo Day - July2011 - (9) IMPACT Interoperability and Evaluation Framework
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IMPACT Interoperability and Evaluation Framework Clemens Neudecker, National Library of the Netherlands IMPACT Demo Day, British Library 12/11/11
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OCR: A multitude of challenges… <ul><li>I. OCR challenges (gothic fonts, bleed-through, warping, etc.) </li></ul>
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OCR: A multitude of challenges… <ul><li>II. Language challenges (spelling variants, inflection, and many more!) </li></ul>Example: historical variants of the Dutch word ‘wereld’ (world): werelt weerelt wereld weerelds wereldt werelden weereld werrelts waerelds weerlyt wereldts vveerelts waereld weerelden waerelden weerlt werlt werelds sweerels zwerlys swarels swerelts werelts swerrels weirelts tsweerelds werret vverelt werlts werrelt worreld werlden wareld weirelt weireld waerelt werreld werld vvereld weerelts werlde tswerels werreldts weereldt wereldje waereldje weurlt wald we ë led
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And a multitude of solutions! <ul><li>22 different ‘tools’ from diverse developers: </li></ul><ul><li>OCR (C++, C#), </li></ul><ul><li>Image Processing & Lexica (DLL), </li></ul><ul><li>Command Line Tools (Win/Linux), </li></ul><ul><li>Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl, etc. </li></ul><ul><li>+ 3 rd party software! </li></ul><ul><li>“ One ring to rule them all...” </li></ul><ul><li> IMPACT Interoperability Framework (IIF) </li></ul>
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Architecture <ul><li>IMPACT Interoperability Framework: Technologies </li></ul><ul><li>- Java 6 </li></ul><ul><li>- Generic Web Service Wrapper </li></ul><ul><li>- Apache Ant/Maven </li></ul><ul><li>- Apache Tomcat/httpd </li></ul><ul><li>- Apache Axis2 </li></ul><ul><li>- Apache Synapse </li></ul><ul><li>- Taverna Workflow Engine </li></ul><ul><li>IMPACT Evaluation Framework: Dataset </li></ul><ul><li>- approx. 5 TB raw data (images, text files, metadata) and growing </li></ul><ul><li>- Ground truth transcriptions </li></ul><ul><li>- Evaluation modules </li></ul>
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Components I: IIF <ul><li>Enterprise Service Bus receives (SOAP) requests from users and distributes the load to the available worker nodes </li></ul><ul><li>Main effect: Process parallelization, </li></ul><ul><li>Load distribution, </li></ul><ul><li>Fail over </li></ul>
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Framework integration <ul><li>Easy to use generic command line wrapper (open source) </li></ul>
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Workflow development <ul><li>OCR workflow = data pipeline </li></ul><ul><li>Building blocks = </li></ul><ul><li>processing steps (nodes) </li></ul><ul><li>Integration = interaction between nodes </li></ul><ul><li>(mashup) </li></ul>
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Community <ul><li>Web2.0 style workflow registry </li></ul><ul><li>Community of experts </li></ul><ul><li>Sharing of resources </li></ul><ul><li>Knowledge exchange </li></ul><ul><li>A central meeting point for users and researchers </li></ul>
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Components II: Dataset <ul><li>Database and front end, hosted at the PRIMA </li></ul><ul><li>research group at University of Salford, </li></ul><ul><li>School of Computing, United Kingdom </li></ul><ul><li>- more than 500.000 images from Digital Libraries </li></ul><ul><li>- more than 50.000 ground truth representations </li></ul><ul><li>- up to 10.000 direct access calls per month </li></ul><ul><li>- 4 TB of space and growing </li></ul>
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Dataset <ul><li>Access to a representative and annotated dataset of significant size, with metadata, ground truth and search facilities </li></ul>
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Evaluation features <ul><li>Text based comparison of result with ground truth, using Levenshtein distance method </li></ul><ul><li>Layout based comparison of result with ground truth, </li></ul><ul><li>using the Page Analysis And Ground Truth Elements Framework </li></ul><ul><li>Example: </li></ul>
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The PAGE Format Framework <ul><li>Two-level architecture: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>root structure </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>task specific sub-formats </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Separate XML Schema definitions </li></ul><ul><li>Format identification via Namespaces </li></ul><ul><li>Mapping of </li></ul><ul><ul><li>dependencies </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>process chains </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>alternative processing steps </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Linking via IDs </li></ul>Processing results or ground truth (e.g. binarisation, dewarping, page content)