We report applications of language technologies to analyzing historical documents in the Database for the Study of Modern Chinese Thoughts and Literature (DSMCTL). We studied two historical issues with the reported techniques: the conceptualization of “華人” and the attempt to institute constitutional monarchy in the late Qing dynasty. We also discuss research challenges for supporting sophistica...

In the paper several methods for the rectification of historical images, with and without reference points, will be discussed. An example will be given for each case. At least there will be shown, how rectified historical images help to visualise the authentic state of historical monuments in a three-dimensional way.

The paper deals with the deployment of XML-related technologies in Cultural Heritage applications concerning the encoding of temporal semantics in the digital version of historical documents. Since written sources have often the same importance as material evidence in medieval archaeology, our approach can be applied to the development of tools for the support of archaeological research. In pre...

The interactive capability and ease of use of Geoweb technologies suggest great potential for Aboriginal communities to store, manage, and communicate place-related knowledge. For the Métis, who have a long history of dispossession and dispersion in Canada, the Geoweb offers an opportunity in realizing the desire to articulate a coherent sense of place for their people. This paper reports on a ...

The essential quality of information in a digital library is accessibility. Full text search is not enough for some collections, more can be done. Historical collections, for example, contain dates, and it would be useful to historians to be able to search by them. However, these dates occur anywhere within the text of historical documents, and to be searched they must be extracted from the doc...

Venture capitalists are investing their money in portfolio enterprises and hence are putting their capital at risk. As portfolio enterprises may pursue different objectives than those of their financiers, venture capitalists may perceive agency problems as an important risk factor. Venture capitalists can limit the scope of these risks by specifying the form of financing that they provide to po...

Cursive handwriting recognition is a challenging task for many real world applications such as document authentication, form processing, postal address recognition, reading machines for the blind, bank cheque recognition and interpretation of historical documents. Therefore, in the last few decades the researchers have put enormous effort to develop various techniques for handwriting segmentati...

The implementation of word spotting is not an easy procedure and it gets even worse in the case of historical documents since it requires character recognition and indexing of the document images. A general technique for word spotting is presented, independent of OCR, using automatic representation of the text queries of the user by word images and comparing them with the word images extracted ...

The first step of physical document analysis system is to digitalize the physical document. Recently number of researcher present numerous techniques that can vary in sensitivity, quality and some more control parameter. This paper presents a three tier framework for physical document digitization and describes an automatic technique for document digitization that can significantly increase the...

Digitization of both hand-written and printed historical material during the last 10–15 years has been an ongoing academic and non-academic industry. Most probably this activity will only increase in the current Digital Humanities era. As a result of past and current work we have lots of digital historical document collections available and will have more of them in the future. The National Lib...