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["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

http://www.umass.edu/umhome/news/articles/7683.php

Researchers create tool to automatically search handwritten historical
documents

Historians and researchers searching through handwritten 
documents, such as the 140,000 pages that make up George 
Washington's personal papers in the Library of Congress, now have 
a new powerful tool to aid their work - a first-of-its kind 
manuscript retrieval system developed at the University of 
Massachusetts Amherst. The search tool has been developed by the 
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval in the computer 
science department at UMass Amherst.

R. Manmatha, research assistant professor of computer science, 
along with graduate students Toni Rath and Victor Lavrenko, have 
created a demonstration of their search tool using 1,000 scanned 
pages of Washington's manuscripts. Manmatha says the computer 
interface is similar to the popular computer search engine 
Google. November 29, 2004.

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Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825