The Geometric Structure of Scribal Variation among Manuscripts of Langland’s Piers Plowman

Year: 2015 Authors: Roger Bilisoly

Core claim

Edit-distance geometry on short Middle English extracts can reproduce Skeat’s manuscript clustering into A, B, and C texts.

Topics

text clustering, scribal variation, multidimensional scaling, Middle English spelling

Domains

edit distance, metric geometry, dimensional reduction, cluster analysis, visualization, literary studies

Methods

Levenshtein edit distance, distance matrix, multidimensional scaling, interactive 3D plotting

Media

forty-five manuscript extracts, Middle English text samples, 3D scatter plot

Source status

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