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Archived Content for FHTW 2012

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Session Title/Speaker Paper
Session 1

Enhancing Geneological Search

Comprehensive Evaluation of Name Matching Across Historic and Linguistic Boundaries
P. Schone, C. Cummings, S. Davey, M. Jones, B. Nay, M. Ward

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Date Range Propagation in Genealogical Databases
Randy Wilson

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Information Extraction from Historical Semi-Structured Handwritten Documents
X. Peng, H. Cao, K. Subramanian, R. Prasad, P. Natarajan

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Session 2

Auto-handling of Historical Images

An efficient method for extracting family records from mixed-type forms
X. Peng, H. Cao, K. Subramanian, R. Prasad, P. Natarajan

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Lessons Learned in Automatically Detecting Lists in OCRed Historical Documents
T. Packer, D. Embley

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Image Registration and Text Recognition for Structured Census Documents
K. Subramanian, H. Cao, X. Peng, R. Prasad, P. Natarajan

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Session 3

Demonstrations and Poster Sessions

The Coming Web of Genealogical Data
J. Hansen

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Genealogy, Migration, and the Intertwined Geographies of Personal Pasts
S. Otterstrom

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Handwriting Recognition of FH documents
D. Kennard,W. Barrett, T. Sederberg

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Effective Sharing of Family History Information
S. Woodfield

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Blur Detection for Historical Document Images
B. Baker

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Removing the Noise from Cemetery Headstones
C. Christensen, W. Barrett

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Family History Archives: Research on Permanent Media
B. Lunt

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Extraction of Handwriting in Tabular Document Images
R. Clawson, W. Barrett

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Controlled Vocabularies
S. Smith

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Genealogy, Microdata, and Search Engines
R. Gardner, D. Barney, T. Ruscoe

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Session 4

Annotation and Acquisition of New Genealogical Data

Improving Indexing Efficiency and Quality
D. Hansen, J. Gehring, P. Schone, M. Reid

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Extracting information from French obituaries
D. Lonsdale, D. Embley, S. Liddle, J. Park

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A Multilingual Personal Name Treebank to Assist Genealogical Name Processing
P. Schone, S. Davey

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Session 5

Improving Genealogist Experience

The 20-Minute Genealogist: Assisting Family History Research through Navigation and Context Preservation
D. Zappala, C. Knutson

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Analyzing the Family Tree
D. Rapp, M. Jones

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Automatic “Life Sketch” Videos
D. Kennard, W. Barrett

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Pedigree Generator
E. Ivie, P. Ivie

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