The UNIPEN inquiry '97

How many sites are still using UNIPEN and how far are they from the UNIPEN benchmark?

Louis Vuurpijl and Lambert Schomaker

At the ICDAR'97 conference, we are planning to hold a UNIPEN meeting. At the meeting, we want to present an overview of the current state. We hereby kindly request for your cooperation.

By filling in the form below, we will be able to answer the following questions:

  1. Is UNIPEN still alive? (it is in our Department!)
  2. And if so, how large is the UNIPEN community currently active?
  3. What releases of the NIST/UNIPEN distributions do they use?
  4. Are people ready for the benchmark, or are they willing to participate in a benchmark now?

Name:
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Please indicate below whether you have seen one or more of the NIST/UNIPEN releases, whether you have just observed these or actually used them for training/testing:

releasedatenot seenjust looked atused
train_r01_V01 Wed, 09 Aug 1995
train_r01_V02 Wed, 20 Sep 1995
train_r01_V03 Tue, 14 Nov 1995
train_r01_V04 Fri, 26 Jan 1996
train_r01_V05 Mon, 15 Jul 1996
train_r01_V06 Tue, 01 Oct 1996
devtest_r01_V01 Tue, 01 Oct 1996
train_r01_V07 Fri, 25 Oct 1996
devtest_r01_V02 Fri, 25 Oct 1996

The UNIPEN benchmark will consist of isolated digits, characters and words, but also of "free text". Please indicate below if you are ready to handle one or more of these. Also, if you are interested in participating in only a part of the benchmark, please tick the last column of the benchmarks you are willing to try. We are thinking about the possibility of holding such a reduced benchmark before the end of this year. The benchmark will probably be done using the data in the development test set, of which already two versions were released.
benchmarkready now!within 6 months within a yearlaterneverwilling to try
isolated digits
isolated upper case
isolated lower case
isolated symbols (punctuations etc.)
isolated characters, mixed case
isolated characters in the context of words or texts
isolated printed words, not mixed with digits and symbols
isolated printed words, full character set
isolated cursive or mixed-style words (without digits and symbols)
isolated words, any style, full character set
text: (minimally two words of) free text, full character set

If you have any comments, please let us now!

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Last modified: July 29, 1997