Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 296.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 04:14:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: "[iso-8859-1] Melissa Terras" <melslists@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Latin Letter Frequency?
Thanks to all who have replied to this thread, its
been very helpful. I was very aware that I asked a
vague "how long is a piece of string" question, and
know that the use of classical corpora is fraught with
a number of problems.
What I'm actually doing is undertaking a statistical
analysis of the Latin in the Vindolanda Writing
Tablets to help propogate some probabilities that will
help the papyrologists at Oxford read the Vindolanda
Stylus Tablets, which are so deteriorated they are
practically illegible. I havent found much of this
type of work done before with Latin - or any language
in humanities research- although natural language
processing and cryptography have developed many
techniques to undertake this kind of "code-cracking",
and so I'm adopting some of those. Or plan to at the
moment ;)
Nevertheless, the pointers given on the list have
given me plenty to chase up. Thanks.
Melissa
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Melissa M Terras MA MSc
Engineering Science / Centre for the Study of Ancient
Documents
Christ Church
University of Oxford
Oxford 0X1 1DP
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