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Information Access to Historical Documents from
the Early New High German Period(Andreas Hauser,
Markus Heller, Elisabeth Leiss, Klaus U. Schulz,
Christiane Wanzeck)

• Background Recovering cultural heritage (Google
  print, digital libraries)
• - huge amount of historical documents in
  libraries
• - growing amount of historical documents
  digitized in symbolic form
• spelling variations, language change
  normalization difficult
• yet no good tools for searching, data mining,
  ...
• recent broad interest in humanities
• Challenge Cope with many interesting spelling
  variations in historical corpora
• - between noisy text and foreign language text-
  time/place dependency- special
  correction/normalization techniques needed
• Our work
• - classification of error classes
• - design of strategy for relating modern words
  with historical variants- experiments with
  various string distances