Omri Suissa

2 paper cards in Mova's library · 2023

Omri Suissa wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2023; often with Avshalom Elmalech, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

Toward a Period-Specific Optimized Neural Network for OCR Error Correction of Historical Hebrew Texts (2023)
The full version of the authors' work on Hebrew OCR post-correction. They align 70% of hand-corrected JPress newspaper articles with their OCR output (Needleman–Wunsch) to learn character-level, period-specific confusions — the commonest being ח→ה (about 8%), ד→ר (5%), ג→נ, ב→כ, ם→ס, ח→ת, ו↔י — and inject them into…
Optimizing the Neural Network Training for OCR Error Correction of Historical Hebrew Texts (2023)
OCR of historical Hebrew newspapers (the JPress collection) is noisy, and neural post-correctors need large hand-corrected sets.