Address extraction using hidden Markov models

Kazem Taghva; Jeffrey S. Coombs; Ray Pereda; Thomas A. Nartker

doi:10.1117/12.587799

17 January 2005 Address extraction using hidden Markov models

Kazem Taghva, Jeffrey S. Coombs, Ray Pereda, Thomas A. Nartker

Proceedings Volume 5676, Document Recognition and Retrieval XII; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.587799
Event: Electronic Imaging 2005, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

This paper presents the implementation and evaluation of a Hidden Markov Model to extract addresses from OCR text. Although Hidden Markov Models discover addresses with high precision and recall, this type of Information Extraction task seems to be affected negatively by the presence of OCR text.

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Kazem Taghva, Jeffrey S. Coombs, Ray Pereda, and Thomas A. Nartker "Address extraction using hidden Markov models", Proc. SPIE 5676, Document Recognition and Retrieval XII, (17 January 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.587799

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