Melissa Terras

Image to Interpretation

An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The ink and stylus tablets discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda are a unique historical resource but are extremely difficult to read. This book details the development of what appears to be the first system constructed to aid experts in the process of reading an ancient document, exploring the use of techniques from Artificial Intelligence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780199204557
• ISBN-10: 0199204551
• Artikelnr.: 22040650

Autorenporträt

Melissa Terras is Lecturer in Electronic Communication, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: How Do Papyrologists Read Ancient Texts? Knowledge Elicitation and
the Papyrologist (1)
* 3: The Palaeography of Vindolanda. Knowledge Elicitation and the
Papyrologist (2)
* 4: Paul Robertson (co-author): Image to Interpretation (1). Using
Artificial Intelligence to Read the Vindolanda Texts
* 5: Paul Robertson (co-author): Image to Interpretation (2). Results
* 6: Conclusion