The overall objective of READ is to implement a Virtual Research Environment where archivists, humanities scholars, computer scientists and volunteers are collaborating with the ultimate goal of boosting research, innovation, development and usage of cutting edge technology for the automated recognition, transcription, indexing and enrichment of handwritten archival documents. This Virtual Research Environment will not be built from the ground up, but will benefit from research, tools, data and resources [...]

ALMAMATER pretende seguir impulsando y llegar a consolidar el marco de investigación que pretende explorar los retos y oportunidades que ofrece la adaptación de la tecnología existente de Reconocimiento de Formas (RF) en un entorno de interacción con el usuario. Concretamente, a partir de los trabajos realizados hasta ahora en el proyecto PROMETEO sobre el aprovechamiento de la realimentación proporcionada por el usuario en cada interacción, se va a trabajar [...]

Manuscripts are among the most important witnesses to our European shared cultural heritage. In recent years, large quantities of historical handwritten documents are being scanned and made available through web portals. Yet, the wealth of information conveyed by the text captured in these images remains largely inaccessible. General users and researchers more and more expect to query handwritten resources in plain text like printed books, but current handwritten text recognition [...]

SomEMBED (SOcial Media language understanding – EMBEDing contexts) is a coordinated project whose goal is to advance in the area of Computational Linguistics (CL) and in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in order to deal with and solve the challenges posed by the use of language in the social media: (i) from CL, our goal is to develop techniques and methods for modeling non-standard language from representative corpus of the social [...]

Processing of handwritten documents is a task that is of wide interest for many purposes, such as those related to preserve cultural heritage. Handwritten text recognition techniques have been successfully applied during the last decade to obtain transcriptions of handwritten documents, and keyword spotting techniques have been applied for searching specific terms in image collections of handwritten documents. However, results on transcription and indexing are far from perfect, although models [...]

Cyber-security has evolved to a key priority for Qatar and all nations over the world. Malicious actors from anywhere misuse the cyberspace to perpetrate various crimes such as phishing, Cyber-blackmailing, Cyber-bullying, and communicating or planning terrorist attacks using social media. For instance, there is a tendency from these cybercriminals to use similar writing styles in their messages, which makes it possible for security experts to detect and stop these threats [...]