Quantitative approaches to literature represent elements or characteristics of literary texts
numerically, applying the powerful, accurate, and widely accepted methods of mathematics …

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

Estimating the relative frequencies of linguistic features is a fundamental task in linguistic
computation. As the amount of text or speech that is available from a given user of the …

How to measure proximities and oppositions in large text corpora? Intertextual distance
provides a simple and interesting solution. Its properties make it a good tool for text …

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 …

Current advances in shallow parsing allow us to use results from this field in stylogenetic
research, so that a new methodology for the automatic analysis of literary texts can be …

Over the history of mankind, textual records change. Sometimes due to mistakes during
transcription, sometimes on purpose, as a way to rewrite facts and reinterpret history. There …

With relatively few scholars and a large number of texts whose manuscript transmission has
yet to be mapped, Icelandic literature would benefit from efficient ways of establishing …

Both textual editors and evolutionary biologists investigate the process of “descent with
modification,” whether of how a text has been copied from one manuscript to another or of …

Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe is one of the earliest English-language works on an
astronomical instrument. It draws on earlier sources, including a work on the astrolabe …