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We present a new method to detect duplicates used to merge different bibliographic record corpora with the help of lexical and social information. As we show, a trivial key is not available to delete useless documents. Merging heteregeneous…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Nicolas Turenne

Understanding humanity's earliest writing systems is crucial for reconstructing civilization's origins, yet many ancient scripts remain undeciphered. Oracle Bone Script (OBS) from China's Shang dynasty exemplifies this challenge: only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yin Wu , Gangjian Zhang , Jiayu Chen , Chang Xu , Yuyu Luo , Nan Tang , Hui Xiong

Originating from China's Shang Dynasty approximately 3,000 years ago, the Oracle Bone Script (OBS) is a cornerstone in the annals of linguistic history, predating many established writing systems. Despite the discovery of thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Haisu Guan , Huanxin Yang , Xinyu Wang , Shengwei Han , Yongge Liu , Lianwen Jin , Xiang Bai , Yuliang Liu

This paper presents our methodology and findings from three tasks across Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Document Layout Analysis using advanced deep learning techniques. First, for the historical Hebrew fragments of the Dead Sea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hylke Westerdijk , Ben Blankenborg , Khondoker Ittehadul Islam

As one of the earliest ancient languages, Oracle Bone Script (OBS) encapsulates the cultural records and intellectual expressions of ancient civilizations. Despite the discovery of approximately 4,500 OBS characters, only about 1,600 have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Caoshuo Li , Zengmao Ding , Xiaobin Hu , Bang Li , Donghao Luo , AndyPian Wu , Chaoyang Wang , Chengjie Wang , Taisong Jin , SevenShu , Yunsheng Wu , Yongge Liu , Rongrong Ji

Ancient scripts, e.g., Egyptian hieroglyphs, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and Ancient Greek inscriptions, serve as vital carriers of human civilization, embedding invaluable historical and cultural information. Automating ancient script image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Xiaolei Diao , Rite Bo , Yanling Xiao , Lida Shi , Zhihan Zhou , Hao Xu , Chuntao Li , Xiongfeng Tang , Massimo Poesio , Cédric M. John , Daqian Shi

Researchers continually perform corroborative tests to classify ancient historical documents based on the physical materials of their writing surfaces. However, these tests, often performed on-site, requires actual access to the manuscript…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Thomas Reynolds , Maruf A. Dhali , Lambert Schomaker

Oracle bone inscriptions (OBIs) contain some of the oldest characters in the world and were used in China about 3000 years ago. As an ancient form of literature, OBIs store a lot of information that can help us understand the world history,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Yoshiyuki Fujikawa , Hengyi Li , Xuebin Yue , Aravinda C , Amar Prabhu G , Lin Meng

We describe a system that helps identify manuscripts submitted to multiple journals at the same time. Also, we discuss potential applications of the near-duplicate detection technology when run with manuscript text content, including…

Contemporary software documentation is as complicated as the software itself. During its lifecycle, the documentation accumulates a lot of near duplicate fragments, i.e. chunks of text that were copied from a single source and were later…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-10 D. V. Luciv , D. V. Koznov , G. A. Chernishev , A. N. Terekhov

Oracle bone inscriptions (OBIs) are the earliest known form of Chinese characters and serve as a valuable resource for research in anthropology and archaeology. However, most excavated fragments are severely degraded due to thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Jinhao Li , Zijian Chen , Tingzhu Chen , Zhiji Liu , Changbo Wang

Commercial web search engines employ near-duplicate detection to ensure that users see each relevant result only once, albeit the underlying web crawls typically include (near-)duplicates of many web pages. We revisit the risks and…

Large-scale digitization initiatives have unlocked massive collections of historical newspapers, yet effective computational access remains hindered by OCR corruption, multilingual orthographic variation, and temporal language drift. We…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Anthony Mudet , Souhail Bakkali

Oracle bone inscriptions(OBI) is the earliest developed writing system in China, bearing invaluable written exemplifications of early Shang history and paleography. However, the task of deciphering OBI, in the current climate of the…

As the oldest mature writing system, Oracle Bone Script (OBS) has long posed significant challenges for archaeological decipherment due to its rarity, abstractness, and pictographic diversity. Current deep learning-based methods have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Kaixin Peng , Mengyang Zhao , Haiyang Yu , Teng Fu , Bin Li

This paper is concerned with the problem of establishing an index based on word matching. It is assumed that the book was digitised as better as possible and some pre-processing techniques were already applied as line orientation correction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. Marcolino , Vitorino Ramos , Mario Ramalho , J. R. Caldas Pinto

Oracle Bone Inscriptions (OBIs), play a crucial role in understanding ancient Chinese civilization. The automated detection of OBIs from rubbing images represents a fundamental yet challenging task in digital archaeology, primarily due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ye Tao , Xinran Fu , Honglin Pang , Xi Yang , Chuntao Li

The emergence of text-to-image generative models has revolutionized the field of deepfakes, enabling the creation of realistic and convincing visual content directly from textual descriptions. However, this advancement presents considerably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Yabin Wang , Zhiwu Huang , Zhiheng Ma , Xiaopeng Hong

Code retrieval helps developers reuse the code snippet in the open-source projects. Given a natural language description, code retrieval aims to search for the most relevant code among a set of code. Existing state-of-the-art approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Qihao Zhu , Zeyu Sun , Xiran Liang , Yingfei Xiong , Lu Zhang

The need for raw large raw corpora has dramatically increased in recent years with the introduction of transfer learning and semi-supervised learning methods to Natural Language Processing. And while there have been some recent attempts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Julien Abadji , Pedro Ortiz Suarez , Laurent Romary , Benoît Sagot
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