Address extraction using hidden Markov models
Kazem Taghva, Jeffrey Coombs, Ray Pereda, Thomas A. Nartker · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2005
This paper presents the implementation and evaluation of a Hidden Markov Model to extract addresses from OCR text. Although Hidden Markov Models discover addresses with high precision and recall, this type of Information Extraction task seems to be affected negatively by the presence of OCR text.