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Session Title/Speaker Paper Slides Video
Keynote Invited Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bertrand Desjardins, Senior Researcher, Université de Montréal
Session 1

Handwritten Records: Reading & Recognition
Session Chair – Scott N. Woodfield, BYU Computer Science

Interactive Smoothing of Handwritten Text Images Using a Bilateral Filter
Oliver A. Nina, Bryan S. Morse

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Word-Spotting for Automatic Tag Suggestion in the BYU Historic Journals Project
Douglas J. Kennard

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Deciphering Old German Documents Using the Online German Script Tutorial
Bradley Jay York

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Using a Hidden-Markov Model in Semi-Automatic Indexing of Historical Handwritten Records
Thomas Packer, Oliver A. Nina, Ilya Raykhel

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Demo

Demo Fast-Forward Session
Session Chair – John Finlay, Neumont University

Session 2

Data Extraction & Organization
Session Chair – Anne Roach, FamilySearch

The New Immigrant Ancestors Project Software: A Web-Based Approach to Data Extraction and Retrieval
Mark Witmer

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Domain-Independent Data Extraction: Person Names
Carl Christensen, Deryle Lonsdale

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Name, Date, and Place Recognition in Unstructured Text
David G. Wiggins III, Scott N. Woodfield

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Implementing a Surname-Study Website with Drupal
Degory Valentine, Denise Mortorff, Christophe Giraud-Carrier

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Lunch and Speaker What Was I Thinking About? The Dilemma of the Part-Time Genealogist
Dr. Charles Knutson, Brigham Young University
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Session 3

Record Digitization & Application Interfaces
Session Chair – Bob Leaman, ASU

Low-Cost, On-Demand Film Digitization and the Online Delivery
Matt Garner

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Digitizing Records
Richard Ivie, Evan Ivie

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Lineage Linked Cousins and Social Networking with the FamilySearch API
Peter Ivie

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Mobility and Accessibility: The Rosetta Stone Approach to Genealogical Web Design
Anne Roach

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