JOURNAL ARTICLE

Transmission problems? An embedded approach for unification of Latin prefixes and text variants during text matching.

  • Published In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2024, v. 39, n. 1. P. 348 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Schropp, Franziska; Konrad, Thomas E; Revellio, Marie; Feichtinger, Barbara 3 of 3

Abstract

This article addresses challenges in Digital Humanities related to the manuscript tradition of pre-modern Latin texts, focusing on textual variations caused by (non-)assimilated prefixes and variant readings. Using works by Virgil and the church father Jerome, it compares two computational approaches—performing versus reversing prefix assimilation—to improve text matching accuracy, finding that performing assimilation yields fewer errors and greater efficiency. The study highlights the difficulty of integrating complex textual variants into digital editions suitable for data mining, advocating for standardized, machine-readable critical apparatus formats embedded directly in texts. It concludes that refining digital tools to match manual-hermeneutic research standards is essential before applying them to less-studied classical texts.

Additional Information

  • Source:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 2024/04, Vol. 39, Issue 1, p348
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:2055-768X
  • DOI:10.1093/llc/fqad069
  • Accession Number:176806327
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