Active Interaction and Learning in Handwritten Text Transcription

Computer-assisted systems are being increasingly used in a variety of real-world tasks, though their application to handwritten text transcription in old manuscripts remains largely unexplored. The basic idea explored in this chapter is to follow a sequential, line-by-line transcription of the whole manuscript in which a continuously retrained system interacts with the user to efficiently transcribe each new line. User interaction is expensive in terms of time and cost. Our top priority is to take advantage of these interactions, while trying to reduce them as most as possible.