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Overview of the 2017 ALTA Shared Task: Correcting OCR Errors

This paper presents an overview of the 8th ALTA shared task that ran in 2017. The task was to correct OCR errors from scans of newspapers stored in the Trove database maintained by the National Library of Australia. We introduce the task, describe the data and present the results of the participating teams.

Steve Cassidy | Diego Mollá Aliod

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