Measuring the Correctness of Double-Keying : Error Classification and Quality Control in a Large Corpus of TEI-Annotated Historical Text

  • Among mass digitization methods, double-keying is considered to be the one with the lowest error rate. This method requires two independent transcriptions of a text by two different operators. It is particularly well suited to historical texts, which often exhibit deficiencies like poor master copies or other difficulties such as spelling variation or complex text structures. Providers of data entry services using the double-keying method generally advertise very high accuracy rates (around 99.95% to 99.98%). These advertised percentages are generally estimated on the basis of small samples, and little if anything is said about either the actual amount of text or the text genres which have been proofread, about error types, proofreaders, etc. In order to obtain significant data on this problem it is necessary to analyze a large amount of text representing a balanced sample of different text types, to distinguish the structural XML/TEI level from the typographical level, and to differentiate between various types of errors which may originate from different sources and may not be equally severe. This paper presents an extensive and complex approach to the analysis and correction of double-keying errors which has been applied by the DFG-funded project “Deutsches Textarchiv” (German Text Archive, hereafter DTA) in order to evaluate and preferably to increase the transcription and annotation accuracy of double-keyed DTA texts. Statistical analyses of the results gained from proofreading a large quantity of text are presented, which verify the common accuracy rates for the double-keying method.

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Author:Susanne Haaf, Frank Wiegand, Alexander Geyken
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:b4-opus-23547
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2013/02/22
Publishing Institution:Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Release Date:2013/02/22
Tag:digitization; double-keying; error classification; proofreading; quality control; tools; transcription accuracy
GND Keyword:Genauigkeit; Transkription; Qualitätssicherung; Korrekturlesen; Korpus <Linguistik>; Historische Sprachwissenschaft; Digitalisierung
Source:Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative ; 4
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
        
            
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