Classification of historical notary acts with noisy labels

I. Efremova, A. Montes Garcia, T.G.K. Calders

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Abstract

This paper approaches the problem of automatic classification of real-world historical notary acts from the 14th to the 20th century. We deal with category ambiguity, noisy labels and imbalanced data. Our goal is to assign an appropriate category for each notary act from the archive collection. We investigate a variety of existing techniques and describe a framework for dealing with noisy labels which includes category resolution, evaluation of inter-annotator agreement and the application of a two level classification. The maximum accuracy we achieve is 88%, which is comparable to the agreement between human annotators.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval (37th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2015, Vienna, Austria, March 29-April 2, 2015. Proceedings)
EditorsA. Hanbury, G. Kazai, A. Rauber, N. Fuhr
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer
Pages49-54
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-16353-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), March 29-April 2, 2015, Vienna, Austria - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 29 Mar 20152 Apr 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume9022
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Conference

Conference37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), March 29-April 2, 2015, Vienna, Austria
Abbreviated titleECIR 2015
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period29/03/152/04/15

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