This article presents an empirical evaluation of text classification methods in literary domain.
This study compared the performance of two popular algorithms, naïve Bayes and support …

Biological evolution has parallels with the development of natural languages, man-made
artifacts, and manuscript texts. As a result, phylogenetic methods developed for evolutionary …

Playing the Canterbury Tales addresses the additions, continuations, and reordering of the
Canterbury Tales found in the manuscripts and early printed editions of the Tales. Many …

Despite the growing prominence of digital libraries as tools to support humanities scholars,
little is known about the work practices and needs of these scholars as they pertain to …

The Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior is the first major critical edition of
the New Testament for a century, aiming to document the New Testament's textual history …

For some time, scholars have been using computer-assisted methods to produce graphic
representations of the relationships between witnesses within a textual tradition. The use of …

Over these last few years, biologists and philologists have been working together using a
common tool: phylogenetic methods. The use of these methods requires conceptual …

Every year countless people throughout the world encounter the Canterbury Tales in
editions, translations, and adaptations. Ultimately, all these many different forms of …

Abstract Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue survives in both hand-written and early print
witnesses dating from the 15th century. The introduction of material from more than one …

While digital libraries based on page images and automatically generated text have made
possible massive projects such as the Million Book Library, Open Content Alliance, Google …