Automatic redaction of private information using relational information extraction
Kazem Taghva, Russell Beckley, Jeffrey Coombs, Julie Borsack, Ray Pereda, Thomas A. Nartker · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2006
We report on an attempt to build an automatic redaction system by applying information extraction techniques to the identification of private dates of birth. We conclude that automatic redaction is a promising concept although information extraction is significantly affected by the presence of OCR error.