Computational Reuse of Printed Critical Apparatuses
Résumé
Critical apparatuses are essential tools in philological research. Their digitization opens new possibilities for the automated analysis of texts, yet their complexity makes them difficult to process computationally. We present a concrete case of computational reuse of a printed critical apparatus, drawn from the Reverse Engineering Kennicott project and the corpus at its core: Benjamin Kennicott's Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum (1776-1780), the most extensive collation of medieval manuscripts ever produced for the Hebrew Bible. We introduce a complete pipeline for processing textual data out of Kennicott's apparatus, from automatic segmentation and transcription to rule-based parsing and textual reconstruction. We demonstrate how this pipeline can encode tens of thousands of entries, reconstruct the full text of hundreds of collated witnesses, and produce structured data of unprecedented scale for Hebrew Bible research. We describe the architecture of our system, present key results, and discuss the challenges and lessons learned in applying computational methods to a large-scale historical critical edition.
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