Overview - Confusion 1996

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For TREC-5, retrieval from corrupted data was studied through retrieval of single target documents from a corpus which was corrupted by producing page images, corrupting the bit maps, and applying OCR techniques to the results. In general, methods which attempted a probabilistic estimation of the original clean text fare better than methods which simply accept corrupted versions of the query text.

Track coordinator(s):

• P. Kantor, Rutgers University
• E. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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