DuoSearch: A Novel Search Engine for Bulgarian Historical Documents

Angel Beshirov; Suzan Hadzhieva; Ivan Koychev; Milena Dobreva

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_31

DuoSearch: A Novel Search Engine for Bulgarian Historical Documents

Angel Beshirov, Suzan Hadzhieva, Ivan Koychev, Milena Dobreva

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Abstract

Search in collections of digitised historical documents is hindered by a two-prong problem, orthographic variety and optical character recognition (OCR) mistakes. We present a new search engine for historical documents, DuoSearch, which uses ElasticSearch and machine learning methods based on deep neural networks to offer a solution to this problem. It was tested on a collection of historical newspapers in Bulgarian from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. The system provides an interactive and intuitive interface for the end-users allowing them to enter search terms in modern Bulgarian and search across historical spellings. This is the first solution facilitating the use of digitised historical documents in Bulgarian.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Information Retrieval
Subtitle of host publication	ECIR 2022
Editors	Matthias Hagen, Suzan Verberne, Craig MacDonald, Christin Seifert, Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nørvåg, Vinay Setty
Pages	265-269
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_31
Publication status	Published - 5 Apr 2022
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	13186
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Keywords

digitisation
optical character recognition software
historical
newspaper history

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Beshirov, A., Hadzhieva, S., Koychev, I., & Dobreva, M. (2022). DuoSearch: A Novel Search Engine for Bulgarian Historical Documents. In M. Hagen, S. Verberne, C. MacDonald, C. Seifert, K. Balog, K. Nørvåg, & V. Setty (Eds.), Advances in Information Retrieval: ECIR 2022 (pp. 265-269). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13186). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_31

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DuoSearch: A Novel Search Engine for Bulgarian Historical Documents. / Beshirov, Angel; Hadzhieva, Suzan; Koychev, Ivan et al.
Advances in Information Retrieval: ECIR 2022. ed. / Matthias Hagen; Suzan Verberne; Craig MacDonald; Christin Seifert; Krisztian Balog; Kjetil Nørvåg; Vinay Setty. 2022. p. 265-269 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13186).

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