Automatic Cataloguing and Searching for Retrospective Data by Use of OCR Text.

Describes efforts in supporting information retrieval from OCR (optical character recognition) degraded text. Reports on approaches used in an automatic cataloging and searching contest for books in multiple languages, including a vector space retrieval model, an n-gram indexing method, and a weighting scheme; and discusses problems of Asian language OCR text retrieval. (Author/LRW)