Computer-assisted Methods of Stemmatic Analysis
- Author / Editor
- O'Hara, Robert,and Peter Robinson.
Computer-assisted Methods of Stemmatic Analysis
- Published
- Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications, 1993), pp. 53-74.
- Description
- Discusses the application of computer-assisted cladistic analysis to manuscript stemmatics and describes the use of "Collate" software, designed to analyze and refine generalizations produced by cladistics. The essay details how texts of the Old Norse "Svipdagsmal" were used to test these techniques, describes their to-date applications to the "Canterbury Tales" Project, and notes plans for the future.
- Contributor
- Robinson, Peter.
- Alternative Title
- The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.