Aida: Intelligent image analysis to automatically detect poems in digital archives of historic newspapers

Leen Kiat Soh, Elizabeth Lorang, Yi Liu

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Abstract

We describe an intelligent image analysis approach to automatically detect poems in digitally archived historic newspapers. Our application, Image Analysis for Archival Discovery, or Aida, integrates computer vision to capture visual cues based on visual structures of poetic works- instead of the meaning or content-and machine learning to train an artificial neural network to determine whether an image has poetic text. We have tested our application on almost 17,000 image snippets and obtained promising accuracies, precision, and recall. The application is currently being deployed at two institutions for digital library and literary research.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 30th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2018
EditorsG. Michael Youngblood, Karen Myers
PublisherThe AAAI Press
Pages7837-7842
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781577358008
StatePublished - 2018
Event30th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2018 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: Feb 2 2018Feb 7 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 30th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2018

Conference

Conference30th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period2/2/182/7/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications

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