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Video |
| Keynote |
Invited Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bertrand Desjardins, Senior Researcher, Université de Montréal |
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| Session 1 |
Handwritten Records: Reading & Recognition
Session Chair – Scott N. Woodfield, BYU Computer Science |
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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
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| Session 2 |
Data Extraction & Organization
Session Chair – Anne Roach, FamilySearch |
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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 |
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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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