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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 paper, 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 refl...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1093/llc/fqr010

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Engineering Science
Sub department:
Oxford e-Research Centre
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Tarte, S
Grant:
AH/E00654X/1
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
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Literary and Linguistic Computing More from this journal
Volume:
26
Issue:
2
Pages:
233-47
Publication date:
2011-06-01
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EISSN:
1477-4615
ISSN:
0268-1145

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