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Transcription of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection using the Bossa Volunteer Thinking Framework

Ngoni Munyaradzi

2013
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TLDR

Volunteer thinking outperforms machine learning techniques at the task of transcribing notebooks from the Bleek and Lloyd Collection, indicating that volunteer thinking can be used to crowdsource intellectually-intensive tasks in digital libraries like transcription of handwritten manuscripts.