Hellenic OCR Team

The Hellenic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Team represents the first scientific crowdsourcing initiative that aims exclusively at the processing and study of parliamentary data. This is an informal but powerful initiative that builds on the simple idea that a decentralized group of people can be more than the mere sum of individuals. We are a dedicated yet rapidly expanding circle of scientists from a wide spectrum of disciplines, which includes academics, officials and students from several institutions, such as the Hellenic Parliament, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Democritus University of Thrace. Team members process the parliamentary texts assigned to them at their convenience and at their own pace. The finished text units, called ‘packages’, pass through a first degree quality proof step by the mentors and are pipelined for scientific examination. Text processing follows a well-defined streamlined process that was developed in order to build quality corpora of parliamentary relevance. We at the Hellenic OCR team are constanlty looking for interested individuals to further expand our dynamic interdisciplinary team.