Wolf, Lior, Dershowitz, Nachum, Potikha, Liza, German, Tanya, Shweka, Roni and Choueka, Yaakov (2011). Automatic Palaeographic Exploration of Genizah Manuscripts. In: Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter 2 - Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2, pp. 157-179. Norderstedt: Books on Demand (BoD). ISBN 978-3-8423-5032-8
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Abstract
The Cairo Genizah is a collection of hand-written documents containing approximately 350,000 fragments of mainly Jewish texts discovered in the late 19th century. The fragments are today spread out in some 75 libraries and private collections worldwide, but there is an ongoing effort to document and catalogue all extant fragments. Palaeographic information plays a key role in the study of the Genizah collection. Script style, and–more specifically–handwriting, can be used to identify fragments that might originate from the same original work. Such matched fragments, commonly referred to as “joins”, are currently identified manually by experts, and presumably only a small fraction of existing joins have been discovered to date. In this work, we show that automatic handwriting matching functions, obtained from non-specific features using a corpus of writing samples, can perform this task quite reliably. In addition, we explore the problem of grouping various Genizah documents by script style, without being provided any prior information about the relevant styles. The automatically obtained grouping agrees, for the most part, with the palaeographic taxonomy. In cases where the method fails, it is due to apparent similarities between related scripts.
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Corporate Creators: | Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (IDE) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43481 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title of Book: | Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter 2 - Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series Name at the University of Cologne: | Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 157-179 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Books on Demand (BoD) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | Norderstedt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISBN: | 978-3-8423-5032-8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 2: Archäologie, Altertumskunde und Kulturen des Mittelmeerraums > Archäologisches Institut > Abteilung für Historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects: | Data processing Computer science Library and information sciences Christian theology Other languages Geography and history History of ancient world |
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References: | http://www.i-d-e.de [IDE-Homepage] http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/2-kpdz1 [Presentation of volume 1] http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/3-kpdz2 [Presentation of volume 2] http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/2939/ [KPDZ1 online] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/4348 |
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