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
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Terras Melissa M
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| 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
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 936.2/881 |
| Soggetto topico: | Inscriptions, Latin - England - Chesterholme |
| Wooden tablets - England - Chesterholme | |
| Paleography - Data processing | |
| Artificial intelligence - Research | |
| Connectionism | |
| Minimum description length (Information theory) | |
| Image analysis | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Vindolanda Site (Chesterholme, England) |
| Chesterholme (England) Antiquities, Roman | |
| Altri autori: |
RobertsonPaul <1956->
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Image to interpretation |
| ISBN: | 1-280-84569-4 |
| 9786610845699 | |
| 0-19-152544-8 | |
| 1-4356-2116-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996217845303316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Oxford studies in ancient documents.