03443nam 2200769 a 450 99621784530331620230829005320.01-280-84569-497866108456990-19-152544-81-4356-2116-6(CKB)1000000000375220(EBL)716795(OCoLC)271577589(SSID)ssj0000087438(PQKBManifestationID)11126369(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000087438(PQKBWorkID)10053187(PQKB)10287622(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073775(MiAaPQ)EBC716795(MiAaPQ)EBC7035320(Au-PeEL)EBL7035320(EXLCZ)99100000000037522020060712d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImage 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 BradyOxford Oxford University Press20061 online resource (265 p.)Oxford studies in ancient documents"Chapters 4, 5, and Appendix A co-authored with Paul Robertson."0-19-170812-7 0-19-920455-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index.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; IndexThe 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 fOxford studies in ancient documents.Inscriptions, LatinEnglandChesterholmeWooden tabletsEnglandChesterholmePaleographyData processingArtificial intelligenceResearchConnectionismMinimum description length (Information theory)Image analysisVindolanda Site (Chesterholme, England)Chesterholme (England)Antiquities, RomanInscriptions, LatinWooden tabletsPaleographyData processing.Artificial intelligenceResearch.Connectionism.Minimum description length (Information theory)Image analysis.936.2/881Terras Melissa M855887Robertson Paul1956-1015623MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996217845303316Image to interpretation2372320UNISA