ARTICLE vin04cart/IDIAP Application of Information Retrieval Techniques to Single Writer Documents Vinciarelli, Alessandro EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2004/rr04-12.pdf PUBLIC http://publications.idiap.ch/index.php/publications/showcite/vin04cirr Related documents Pattern Recognition Letters 26 14-15 2262-2271 2005 IDIAP-RR 04-12 This work shows Information Retrieval experiments performed over handwritten documents produced by a single writer. The same retrieval task has been performed over both manual (no errors) and automatic (Word Error Rate around 45%) transcriptions of 200 handwritten texts. The results show that the performance loss due to recognition errors is acceptable and that Information Retrieval technologies can be effectively applied to handwritten data. REPORT vin04cIRR/IDIAP Application of Information Retrieval Techniques to Single Writer Documents Vinciarelli, Alessandro EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2004/rr04-12.pdf PUBLIC Idiap-RR-12-2004 2004 IDIAP Accepted for publication by ``Pattern Recognition Letters'', 2005 This work shows Information Retrieval experiments performed over handwritten documents produced by a single writer. The same retrieval task has been performed over both manual (no errors) and automatic (Word Error Rate around 45%) transcriptions of 200 handwritten texts. The results show that the performance loss due to recognition errors is acceptable and that Information Retrieval technologies can be effectively applied to handwritten data.