Statistical Comparison of Middle English Texts: An Interim Report
- Author / Editor
- Thaisen, Jacob.
Statistical Comparison of Middle English Texts: An Interim Report
- Published
- Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny 56.3 (2009): 205-21.
- Description
- Using available electronic transcriptions of manuscripts of WBP and MilT tests the reliability of a statistical model ("interpolated, modified Kneser-Ney smoothed 3-gram backoff model") for determining various linguistic and scribal features of the manuscripts. Thaisen compares statistical data with results from more traditional methods to call for further investigation of the use of statistics and electronic transcriptions in manuscript study.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.