29-12-2025, 01:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 29-12-2025, 01:05 PM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
So far I have excluded {ith} {ikh} {iph} {ifh} from the set of valid elements.
However there are 70 words (tokens) with those combinations in the whole parags text, out of more that 30'000 tokens. Is that significant? Contrast that with 1622 occurrences of {cth} {ckh} {cph} {cfh}.
Maybe I should accept those 'i' variants too (and treat them too as platform gallows, CMC class "H").
On the other hand here are only 4 occurrences of {ih}; contrast with 9362 of {ch}.
This may be a clue that {ith} {ikh} {iph} {ifh} are instances of {cth} {ckh} {cph} {cfh} that were mangled by the Scribe/Retracer/Transcriber. So maybe we should just "error-correct" them as such.
--All the best, --stolfi
However there are 70 words (tokens) with those combinations in the whole parags text, out of more that 30'000 tokens. Is that significant? Contrast that with 1622 occurrences of {cth} {ckh} {cph} {cfh}.
Maybe I should accept those 'i' variants too (and treat them too as platform gallows, CMC class "H").
On the other hand here are only 4 occurrences of {ih}; contrast with 9362 of {ch}.
This may be a clue that {ith} {ikh} {iph} {ifh} are instances of {cth} {ckh} {cph} {cfh} that were mangled by the Scribe/Retracer/Transcriber. So maybe we should just "error-correct" them as such.
--All the best, --stolfi