We describe ongoing work aiming at deriving a multilingual controlled vocabulary (German, French, Italian) from the combined subject indices from 22 volumes of a large-scale critical edition of historical documents. The controlled vocabulary is intended to support editors in assigning descriptors to new documents and to support users in retrieving documents of interest regardless of the spellin...

In this paper, we describe our approach to extract salient events such as birth and death records from historical French parish documents that contain free-form handwritten text. The challenges posed by these documents to the current state of the art in handwriting recognition and information extraction go well beyond the generic challenges in recognizing handwritten text such as style variatio...

Recently, there is an increasing research efforts in XML data mining. These efforts largely assumed that XML documents are static. However, in many real applications, XML data are evolutionary in nature. In this paper, we focus on mining evolution patterns from historical XML documents. Specifically, we propose a novel approach to discover frequently changing structures (FCS) from a sequence of...

The “Adaptive Approach for Historical or Degraded Document Binarization” is that in which Libraries and Museums obtain in large gathering of ancient historical documents printed or handwritten in native languages. Typically, only a small group of people are allowed access to such collection, as the preservation of the material is of great concern. In recent years, libraries have begun to digiti...

This paper is concerned with the investigation of the relevance and suitability of the data mining approach to serial documents. Conceptually the paper is divided into three parts. The first part presents the salient features of data mining and its symbiotic relationship to data warehousing. In the second part of the paper, historical serial documents are introduced, and the Ottoman Tax Registe...

In this paper, we propose a novel holistic methodology for keyword search in historical typewritten documents combining synthetic data and user's feedback. The holistic approach treats the word as a single entity and entails the recognition of the whole word rather than of individual characters. Our aim is to search for keywords typed by the user in a large collection of digitized typewritten h...