We explore the application of stylometric methods developed for modern texts to rhymed medieval narratives (Jacob van Maerlant and Lodewijk van Velthem, ca. 1260–1330). Because of the peculiarities of medieval text transmission, we propose to use highly frequent rhyme words for authorship attribution. First, we shall demonstrate that these offer important benefits, being relatively content-inde...

Given a collection of imperfect copies of a textual document, the aim of stemmatology is to reconstruct the history of the text, indicating for each variant the sourcc tcxt from it was copied. We describe an experiment involving three artificial bcnchmark data sets to which a number of computer-assisted stemmatologr mcthods wcre applied. Contrary to earlicr similar expcrimenls, we propose and u...

Cuneiform is the world’s oldest known writing system. Ancient scribes impressed reed styluses onto damp clay to write the approximately 900 different logographic, syllabic and taxographic signs. These clay tablets were preserved in the ruins of ancient Near Eastern cities for millennia, and today sit in museum storerooms around the world, where they are subject to degradation and are available ...

Blade of a small bronze knife of the type used by Egyptian scribes of the New Kingdom for trimming their brushes, cutting sheets of papyrus, and the like. It was once the property of the Chief Steward Thot-hotpe, who served Het-shepswet during her reign as "king" of Egypt (1497-1482 B.C.), and is inscribed with the title and name of this important official. The blade, minus its curved handle, w...

Stored data has been fundamental to human enterprise ever since the invention of clay tablets, or perhaps even as early as primitive cave paintings. All stored data requires the definition of persistent representations for that data, and corresponding interfaces to access and use that data. Once invented, each representation of persistent data must inevitably inter-operate with humans or mechan...

This paper seeks to review the state of art concerning how documentary formulae were reproduced in early medieval private charters written Latin. I shall estimate which kind theoretical considerations and empirical evidence there are support one or other two main hypotheses, i.e., that i) charter scribes copied from models ii) they had memorized them memory each time wrote a new charter. propos...

Data in relational databases is frequently stored and retrieved using B-Trees. In &cis,ion isugprt applications the key of the B-Tree frequently involves the concatenation of several fields of the relationdl’ table. During retrieval, it is desirable to be able to access a small subset of the table based’ on partial key information, where some fields of the key may either not be present, involve...

High density DNA arrays used to monitor gene expression at a genomic scale have produced vast amounts of information which require the development of e cient computational methods to analyze them The important rst step is to extract the fundamental patterns of gene expression inherent in the data This paper de scribes the application of a novel clustering algorithm Super Paramagnetic Cluster in...

A process time diagram showing the execution his tory of individual processes and the interactions be tween processes can be a very useful tool in under standing the behavior of a distributed or concurrent application Managing the size of these visualizations via suitable abstraction facilities is essential for long running and complex applications This paper de scribes Poet a tool that collect...