Digital texts
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This page will introduce concepts and code for digital text analysis.
Overview: what’s different about computational study of texts in historical languages?
- builds on central ideas of citation
- languages known to us only through written sources: essential to be explicit about the relation of orthography to language
- we often need to construct unambiguous editions from source material in a variety of structured text formats
- the Indo-European and Semitic languages I work in are morphologically rich: we need to take advantage of thats