Quantifying scripts: Defining metrics of characters for quantitative and descriptive analysis.
Analysis of scripts plays an important role in paleography and in quantitative linguistics. Especially in the field of digital paleography, quantitative features are much needed to differentiate glyphs. We describe an elaborate set of metrics that quantify qualitative information contained in charac...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 602 - 632 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2017
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