Dear Colleagues,
I would like to announce the launch of the Kaggle Competition "Kuzushiji Recognition."
Kuzushiji is a set of old Japanese characters that had been used for a thousand years in Japan, but most of the contemporary Japanese people cannot read them due to cursive writing style and the different form of characters.
To solve this problem, we take advantage of machine learning and AI to develop Kuzushiji OCR algorithm for automatically extracting the type and the location of kuzushiji characters from old Japanese books.
Kaggle is the world's largest community of data scientists, and this competition is the first on the Kaggle platform in the area of digital humanities.
We wish to see active participation of people with background not only in computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence, but also in Japanese studies and digital humanities.
** Period: July 19 to October 14, 2019
** Competition official page: https://www.kaggle.com/c/kuzushiji-recognition/
** Competition host page: http://codh.rois.ac.jp/competition/kaggle/
** Hosts ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities http://codh.rois.ac.jp/ National Institute of Japanese Literature https://www.nijl.ac.jp/ National Institute of Informatics https://www.nii.ac.jp/
We will also offer opportunities for the winners of the competition to receive awards and give talks at a Symposium on November 11 in Tokyo, Japan.
** Japanese Culture and AI Symposium 2019 http://codh.rois.ac.jp/symposium/japanese-culture-ai-2019/
We are looking forward to your participation in the competition to develop innovative tools and datasets for improving accessibility to Japanese culture of the past.
--- Asanobu KITAMOTO ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities National Institute of Informatics http://researchmap.jp/kitamoto/