Title
Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah
Abstract
A join is a set of manuscript-fragments that are known to originate from the same original work. The Cairo Genizah is a collection containing approximately 350,000 fragments of mainly Jewish texts discovered in the late 19th century. The fragments are today spread out in libraries and private collections worldwide, and there is an ongoing effort to document and catalogue all extant fragments. The task of finding joins is currently conducted manually by experts, and presumably only a small fraction of the existing joins have been discovered. In this work, we study the problem of automatically finding candidate joins, so as to streamline the task. The proposed method is based on a combination of local descriptors and learning techniques. To evaluate the performance of various join-finding methods, without relying on the availability of human experts, we construct a benchmark dataset that is modeled on the Labeled Faces in the Wild benchmark for face recognition. Using this benchmark, we evaluate several alternative image representations and learning techniques. Finally, a set of newly-discovered join-candidates have been identified using our method and validated by a human expert.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/s11263-010-0389-8
International Journal of Computer Vision
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cairo Genizah,Document analysis,Similarity learning
Similarity learning,Facial recognition system,Joins,Document analysis,Computer science,Genizah,Artificial intelligence,Extant taxon,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
94
1
0920-5691
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
1.30
29
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lior Wolf15501352.38
Rotem Littman2231.78
Naama Mayer3292.21
Tanya German4191.30
Nachum Dershowitz52818473.00
Roni Shweka6303.96
Yaacov Choueka7241202.83