a Study of Efficient Human-assisted OCR of Japanese Books

Research Project

Project/Area Number	17K12790
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
Research Institution	Aichi Shukutoku University (2019) Chiba University (2017-2018)
Principal Investigator	IKEDA Kosetsu 愛知淑徳大学, 人間情報学部, 講師 (10779606)
Project Period (FY)	2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000) Fiscal Year 2018: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords	クラウドソーシング / デジタル翻刻 / マイクロタスク / 文字起こし / 翻刻 / OCR / Human-assisted OCR
Outline of Final Research Achievements	Through discussions with the participants in the lectures, the task design needed in this study was completed. Unfortunately, the results were not published as a paper due to various reasons, we were able to design a system using microtask-type crowdsourcing.
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	デジタルアーカイブが強く推進されており，様々な文書が電子化されていくなかで，従来の人手やOCR単独の処理に依らない，マイクロタスク型クラウドソーシングによるデジタル翻刻の新たな方向性を示すことができた．今後，サービスとして定着するところまでこの成果を発展させることができれば今後の情報基盤として有用なものになると考えられる．