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August 01, 2009
Description
Generation of base corpora for Google Book Search.
Participants (1)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| organization | 823 | View Entity |
Source Documents (1)
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This document is page 6 of a technical report detailing the methodology for creating data corpora from Google Book Search. It specifically discusses Section II.1B (OCR Quality) and II.1C (Accuracy of language metadata), explaining the algorithms used to filter out poor quality text and incorrect dates. While the content is technical, the footer 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017014' indicates this document was produced as evidence or reference material for a US House Oversight Committee investigation.
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