Zammit, Darren (2024) Computational Stemmatology: Reconstructing Text Phylogenies through Computer Assisted Methods. Master's Thesis / Essay, Applied Mathematics.
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Abstract
Stemmatology is a branch of textual criticism whose aim is to reconstruct the history, or stemma, of a text given a collection of manuscripts imperfectly copied from each other. Typically, a philologist would have to read through all the manuscripts several times and from the small differences in between the texts, the stemma would be constructed. This can be a very long process since dates and textual features which expose the documents' evolutionary direction are not always available or reliable and thus in this project, a tool chain was developed to derive a preliminary stemma using computational tools. This project serves to describe a general framework for reliably reconstructing stemmata and some experiments involving synthetic data sets and corpora with known stemmata, to which a number of computer-assisted methods from phylogenetics and natural language processing were applied. Moreover, we applied these methods to a tradition whose stemma is unknown, provided to us by a philologist, leading to believable results.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master's Thesis / Essay) |
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| Supervisor name: | Koellermeier, J. and Tashu, T. M. |
| Degree programme: | Applied Mathematics |
| Thesis type: | Master's Thesis / Essay |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2024 08:54 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2024 08:54 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/33326 |
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