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On the applicability of currently existing digital tools in reconstructive textual editing

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This article reviews some of the digital tools currently available for reconstructive textual editing. First the main idea of reconstructive textual editing is summarised, then its parts amenable to algorithmic description are compared to similar questions in evolutionary biology. Two Latin texts with a complicated transmission are then introduced to illustrate some available tools. The main focus is on stemma reconstruction. Some steps of the process can already be largely automated, especially collating texts, but it is found that tree-constructing software is of little help in the case of the Liber Aurelii, whereas it is somewhat more helpful for Plato of Tivoli's Latin translation of the Centiloquium. In a concluding part, the main problems for algorithmic approaches to the stemma are discussed: incomplete witnesses leading to only partly overlapping text samples, contamination of some witnesses, and rooting the tree.
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hal-03718032 , version 1 (08-07-2022)
hal-03718032 , version 2 (13-07-2022)
hal-03718032 , version 3 (22-11-2022)
hal-03718032 , version 4 (25-01-2023)

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Philipp Roelli. On the applicability of currently existing digital tools in reconstructive textual editing. 2022. ⟨hal-03718032v1⟩
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