ICDAR2017 Competition on Information Extraction in Historical Handwritten Records
Alícia Fornés, Verónica Romero, Arnau Baró, Juan Ignacio Toledo, Joan Andreu Sánchez, Enrique Vidal, Josep Lladós · 2017
The extraction of relevant information from historical handwritten document collections is one of the key steps in order to make these manuscripts available for access and searches. In this competition, the goal is to detect the named entities and assign each of them a semantic category, and therefore, to simulate the filling in of a knowledge database. This paper describes the dataset, the tasks, the evaluation metrics, the participants methods and the results.