Document Analysis and Exploitation

Research Project

Building and maintaining a national resource to support critical research and development in translation, document analysis, preservation, and exploitation.

Director:  Prof. Henry S. Baird;  Associate Directors:  Profs. Daniel P. Lopresti & Hank F. Korth.

Other Faculty:  Profs. Brian Davison & Jeff Heflin. Students:  Chang An, Pingping Xiu, Dawei (David) Yin, Dezhao Song.

Visiting Research Scientists: Prof. Bart Lamiroy of LORIA INPL - Ecole des Mines de Nancy, France, is with us during 2010. Also, Prof. Ergina Kavallieratou of the University of the Aegean, Greece visited us in December 2009.

Key Technical Goals:

• Multilingual document analysis & recognition
• Impact of recognition errors on downstream stages
• Detecting document nontextual "meta-data"
• Adaptive and interactive recognition systems
• Privacy-sensitive user interfaces to document collections
  
• Cloud-computing access to benchmark algorithms & DBs
  

In partnership with BBN Technologies (Cambridge, MA): Prem Natarajan, Vice President, Speech, Language, and Multimedia.
Contract administered by DARPA Information Processing Technology Office: Joseph Olive, Program Manager.