26-04-2022, 03:29 PM
Koen, thank you so much for this! It's so helpful for those of us who aren't linguists. (I was very proud of myself that I scored 100% on the guess-the-next-letter quiz!)
I have often thought that the way EVA is structured may lead to bias in resulting analytics, just as you say. [ch], [qo], even [ain] and [aiin]. I can see the reasons why these decisions were made, but your strategy of trying to account for that bias seems like a very good way to go.
I have also noticed that there are errors in the standard EVA transcription that we all depend on, likely because that was originally based on lower-resolution images. I am beginning a very long-term project of proof-reading the transcription to make corrections and to resolve many of the uncertain readings. Might take as long as a year, but I think it will be well worth the effort. I have made ten corrections on f. 1r alone, so I suspect there will be well over a thousand changes to be made, which may very well impact computational and linguistic analyses.
I have often thought that the way EVA is structured may lead to bias in resulting analytics, just as you say. [ch], [qo], even [ain] and [aiin]. I can see the reasons why these decisions were made, but your strategy of trying to account for that bias seems like a very good way to go.
I have also noticed that there are errors in the standard EVA transcription that we all depend on, likely because that was originally based on lower-resolution images. I am beginning a very long-term project of proof-reading the transcription to make corrections and to resolve many of the uncertain readings. Might take as long as a year, but I think it will be well worth the effort. I have made ten corrections on f. 1r alone, so I suspect there will be well over a thousand changes to be made, which may very well impact computational and linguistic analyses.
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