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Papyrological investigations: transferring perception and interpretation into the digital world

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Deciphering ancient and damaged documents is a complex investigative task that papyrologists routinely undertake to extract meaning from the script. Perception and interpretation play an essential role. In this article, we present methods for transferring to the digital world some of the processes that experts draw upon when interpreting a text, with the ultimate aim of constructing an Interpretation Support System (ISS) for papyrologists. Image-capture and image-processing approaches that re...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1093/llc/fqr010

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Humanties Division
Department:
Classics Faculty
Sub department:
Ancient History and Classical Arch
Department:
Oxford
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
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Literary and Linguistic Computing More from this journal
Volume:
26
Issue:
2
Pages:
233-247
Publication date:
2011-06-01
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ISSN:
0268-1145
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pubs:304076
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uuid:16a25bba-813b-4aaf-9561-3b65e98809b8
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pubs:304076
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304076
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2017-01-03

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