Encoding medieval abbreviations for computer analysis (from Latin-Portuguese and Portuguese non-literary sources)
This paper proposes a solution to the problem of handling scribal abbreviations in TEI-conformant transcriptions of medieval texts, following a conservative editorial strategy. A key distinction is drawn between alphabetic abbreviations, which represent sequences of letters, and logographic abbrevia...
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2002
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| author | Parkinson, S Emiliano, A |
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| description | This paper proposes a solution to the problem of handling scribal abbreviations in TEI-conformant transcriptions of medieval texts, following a conservative editorial strategy. A key distinction is drawn between alphabetic abbreviations, which represent sequences of letters, and logographic abbreviations which represent whole words. The TEI elements <expan> and <abbrev> can be used systematically to separate these two types: alphabetic abbreviations will be expanded in the main text, recording the abbreviated form (including TEI entities representing the main abbreviation marks) as an attribute of <expan>, while logographic abbreviations will be represented in their abbreviated form, with the expanded form recorded as an attribute of <abbrev>. The proposals are illustrated from common abbreviations and short text samples from tenth-century Latin-Portuguese and thirteenth-century Old Portuguese.</abbrev></expan></abbrev></expan> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f5ffe0d5-0eec-4c9b-918c-64911c2b6f932022-03-27T12:31:41ZEncoding medieval abbreviations for computer analysis (from Latin-Portuguese and Portuguese non-literary sources)Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:f5ffe0d5-0eec-4c9b-918c-64911c2b6f93Computational LinguisticsSpanish & Portuguese literaturesLanguages (Medieval and Modern) and non-English literatureEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetOxford University Press2002Parkinson, SEmiliano, AThe Association for Literary & Linguistic ComputingAssociation for Computers and the HumanitiesThe Society for Digital Humanistes/ La Société pour l'Étude des Médias Interactifs (SDH/SEMi)This paper proposes a solution to the problem of handling scribal abbreviations in TEI-conformant transcriptions of medieval texts, following a conservative editorial strategy. A key distinction is drawn between alphabetic abbreviations, which represent sequences of letters, and logographic abbreviations which represent whole words. The TEI elements <expan> and <abbrev> can be used systematically to separate these two types: alphabetic abbreviations will be expanded in the main text, recording the abbreviated form (including TEI entities representing the main abbreviation marks) as an attribute of <expan>, while logographic abbreviations will be represented in their abbreviated form, with the expanded form recorded as an attribute of <abbrev>. The proposals are illustrated from common abbreviations and short text samples from tenth-century Latin-Portuguese and thirteenth-century Old Portuguese.</abbrev></expan></abbrev></expan> |
| spellingShingle | Computational Linguistics Spanish & Portuguese literatures Languages (Medieval and Modern) and non-English literature Parkinson, S Emiliano, A Encoding medieval abbreviations for computer analysis (from Latin-Portuguese and Portuguese non-literary sources) |
| title | Encoding medieval abbreviations for computer analysis (from Latin-Portuguese and Portuguese non-literary sources) |
| title_full | Encoding medieval abbreviations for computer analysis (from Latin-Portuguese and Portuguese non-literary sources) |
| title_fullStr | Encoding medieval abbreviations for computer analysis (from Latin-Portuguese and Portuguese non-literary sources) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Encoding medieval abbreviations for computer analysis (from Latin-Portuguese and Portuguese non-literary sources) |
| title_short | Encoding medieval abbreviations for computer analysis (from Latin-Portuguese and Portuguese non-literary sources) |
| title_sort | encoding medieval abbreviations for computer analysis from latin portuguese and portuguese non literary sources |
| topic | Computational Linguistics Spanish & Portuguese literatures Languages (Medieval and Modern) and non-English literature |
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