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The Heinz Electronic Library Interactive On-Line System (Helios): Building A Digital Archive Using Imaging, Ocr, And Natural Language Processing Technologies, Gabrielle Michalek
The Heinz Electronic Library Interactive On-Line System (Helios): Building A Digital Archive Using Imaging, Ocr, And Natural Language Processing Technologies, Gabrielle Michalek
Gabrielle Michalek
In February 1994, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) embarked on an ambitious project to convert one million pages of the congressional papers of Senator John Heinz (R-PA) into digital format and to provide access to these papers through innovative information retrieval software developed at CMU. Named in memory of the late Senator, the Heinz Electronic Library Interactive Online System (HELIOS) supports full-page digital images and it utilizes natural language processing (NLP) technology to search large quantities of unstructured text. HELIOS will allow researchers to access the Heinz papers through the campus network as well as through the Internet. Over one million …