TY - CONF AU - Alicia Fornes AU - Veronica Romero AU - Arnau Baro AU - Juan Ignacio Toledo AU - Joan Andreu Sanchez AU - Enrique Vidal AU - Josep Llados A2 - ICDAR PY - 2017// TI - ICDAR2017 Competition on Information Extraction in Historical Handwritten Records BT - 14th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition SP - 1389 EP - 1394 N2 - The extraction of relevant information from historical handwritten document collections is one of the key steps in order to make these manuscripts available for access and searches. In this competition, the goal is to detect the named entities and assign each of them a semantic category, and therefore, to simulate the filling in of a knowledge database. This paper describes the dataset, the tasks, the evaluation metrics, the participants methods and the results. L1 - http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/FRB2017.pdf N1 - DAG; 600.097; 601.225; 600.121 ID - Alicia Fornes2017 ER -