Pushing Boundaries: HTR Meets German Shorthand | Achim Rabus and Milanka Matić-Chalkitis
Channel: Transkribus
Date: 2024-03-06

Achim Rabus and Milanka Matić-Chalkitis (MultiHTR project, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Freiburg University)

 Elevating Transkribus: Pushing Boundaries - HTR Meets German Shorthand


Where does HTR reach its limits?” The project uses German shorthand systems, among others, to explore this question. Shorthand is very challenging for HTR technology due to many deviations from a classical longhand script. The system of simplified characters and syllables do not allow for one-to-one correspondence of individual characters, which is fundamental for the recognition process. It can be used for different writing styles with varying levels of simplification, such as correspondence style, quick style and reporters' style. 
Above all, it attaches greater importance to each individual symbol’s form and position on, under, or above the baseline. This talk will use selected examples to show whether Transkirbus can prove its ‘smart’ features as well as ‘linguistic intelligence’ in shorthand models. Furthermore the role of creating synthetic training data as well as the results of the experiments with Large Language Models for correcting HTR shorthand transcriptions will be reported.


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