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Proper capitalization in text is a useful, often mandatory characteristic. Many text processing techniques rely on proper capitalization, and people can more easily read mixed case text. Proper capitalization, however, is often absent in a number of text sources, including automatic speech recognition output and closed caption text. The value of these text sources can be greatly enhanced with proper capitalization. We describe and evaluate a series of techniques that can recover proper capitalization. Our final system is able to recover more than 88% of the capitalized words with better than 90% accuracy.
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Brown, E.W., Coden, A.R. (2002). Capitalization Recovery for Text. In: Coden, A.R., Brown, E.W., Srinivasan, S. (eds) Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications. IRTSA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45637-6_2
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