Dear all,
I have a question about what tools and techniques people are using for data mining in medieval studies, especially for authorship attribution and scribal identification. If you use them then which systems do you use? How do you verify the results? Do you trust the system to work and not simply to reproduce your own views? If you don't use these systems then why not? I'm thinking of a recent article in LLC 23 (2008) by Sculley and Pasanek which seems to me to raise some important questions about the validity of data mining, but I'm also asking as a designer myself. If I'm producing software for scribal identification or authorship attribution, what can I do (if anything) that will convince you to use and trust my system?
Peter
-- Dr Peter Stokes Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic The University of Cambridge 9 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DP Tel: +44 1223 767314 Fax: +44 1223 335092