Introduction
Motivation
Project Plan and Milestones
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Task
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Completion
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By Week 3
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- Brainstorm projects ideas.
- Prepare slides for initial project idea presentation.
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✓
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By Week 5
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- Discuss the differences between image analysis and text analysis in terms of related algorithms, processing toolkits, implementation difficulties and display methods.
- Decide to focus on text processing.
- Select a subset collection from the "Newspaper collection" of Europeana for our project.
- Check the content of "La clef du cabinet des princes de l'Europe" and roughly select 3 topics we may focus on.
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✓
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By Week 6
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- Each of us read some pages of the journal to get an overall understanding of it.
- We find that the accuracy of the OCR results isn't very satisfying and decide to somehow improve the OCR results before text analyzing.
- Request for data.
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✓
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By Week 7
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- Research in OCR methods and find some OCR methods for Italian italics
- Get text by web analysis
- Use DeepL to translate FR to ENG, and then translate ENG to FR, finally check results
- Reproduce the OCR method from the literature and find that recognition has improved.
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Github Repository
https://github.com/XinyiDyee/Europeana-Search-Engine
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