%0 Conference Proceedings
%T e-Crowds: a mobile platform for browsing and searching in historical demographyrelated manuscripts
%A Pau Riba
%A Jon Almazan
%A Alicia Fornes
%A David Fernandez
%A Ernest Valveny
%A Josep Llados
%B 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
%D 2014
%@ 2167-6445
%@ 978-1-4799-4335-7
%F Pau Riba2014
%O DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077
%O exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=2463), last updated on Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:18:55 +0100
%X This paper presents a prototype system running on portable devices for browsing and word searching through historical handwritten document collections. The platform adapts the paradigm of eBook reading, where the narrative is not necessarily sequential, but centered on the user actions. The novelty is to replace digitally born books by digitized historical manuscripts of marriage licenses, so document analysis tasks are required in the browser. With an active reading paradigm, the user can cast queries of people names, so he/she can implicitly follow genealogical links. In addition, the system allows combined searches: the user can refine a search by adding more words to search. As a second contribution, the retrieval functionality involves as a core technology a word spotting module with an unified approach, which allows combined query searches, and also two input modalities: query-by-example, and query-by-string.
%U http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/RAF2014.pdf
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR.2014.46
%P 228-233