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Record Nr.

UNISA996217845303316

Autore

Terras Melissa M

Titolo

Image to interpretation [[electronic resource] ] : an intelligent system to aid historians in reading the Vindolanda texts / / Melissa M. Terras ; with a foreword by Alan K. Bowman and Michael Brady

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-84569-4

9786610845699

0-19-152544-8

1-4356-2116-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Oxford studies in ancient documents

Altri autori (Persone)

RobertsonPaul <1956->

Disciplina

936.2/881

Soggetti

Inscriptions, Latin - England - Chesterholme

Wooden tablets - England - Chesterholme

Paleography - Data processing

Artificial intelligence - Research

Connectionism

Minimum description length (Information theory)

Image analysis

Vindolanda Site (Chesterholme, England)

Chesterholme (England) Antiquities, Roman

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Chapters 4, 5, and Appendix A co-authored with Paul Robertson."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables; 1. Introduction; I: Knowledge Elicitation and the Papyrologist; II: Image to Interpretation; Appendix A. Using a Stochastic MDL Architecture to Read the Vindolanda Texts; Appendix B. Annotation; Appendix C. Vindolanda Letter Forms Corpus; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The ink and stylus tablets discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda are a unique resource for scholars of ancient history. However, the stylus tablets in particular are extremely difficult to read. This book details the development of what appears to be the first system constructed to aid experts in the process of reading an ancient



document, exploring the extent to which techniques from Artificial Intelligence can be used to develop a system that could aid historians in readingthe stylus texts. Image to Interpretation includes a model of how experts read ancient texts, a corpora of letter f