We are very pleased to welcome two new student assistants, Clara and Melanie, to our team. Together with our student assistant Meike, who has already been working with us for a few months, they will help us to check and correct the OCR text of job advertisements.
This task is very important because it allows us to
- quantify the quality of the OCR (measured by the Word Error Rate and Character Error Rate),
- provide us with high quality data for text mining experiments and
- provide us with information about the most common errors in recognition, which we can use for automatic post-corrections.
A warm welcome to Clara and Melanie!