16-04-2019, 03:38 PM
This is one of those statistics where one knows that there will be errors, but they remain interesting due to the fact that they are based on a large amount of data.
The bigger problem is with the word boundaries. If one hasn't done any transcription oneself, one will not appreciate how difficult it is to judge word spaces.
By looking at transcription files and the source images, one sees that the decision if quite often made on the basis that one 'expects' certain combinations to be words.
This is highly dangerous, and can very well bias the statistics, also for a long text.
Just to give an example, where would one put the spaces in the last line of fol. 104r:
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The bigger problem is with the word boundaries. If one hasn't done any transcription oneself, one will not appreciate how difficult it is to judge word spaces.
By looking at transcription files and the source images, one sees that the decision if quite often made on the basis that one 'expects' certain combinations to be words.
This is highly dangerous, and can very well bias the statistics, also for a long text.
Just to give an example, where would one put the spaces in the last line of fol. 104r:
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