Automatic Compositor Attribution in the First Folio of Shakespeare

Dan Garrette; Hannah Alpert-Abrams; Maria Ryskina; Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

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arxiv 1704.07875 v1 pith:JRQAOTSJ submitted 2017-04-25 cs.CL

Maria Ryskina , Hannah Alpert-Abrams , Dan Garrette , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick This is my paper

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Compositor attribution, the clustering of pages in a historical printed document by the individual who set the type, is a bibliographic task that relies on analysis of orthographic variation and inspection of visual details of the printed page. In this paper, we introduce a novel unsupervised model that jointly describes the textual and visual features needed to distinguish compositors. Applied to images of Shakespeare's First Folio, our model predicts attributions that agree with the manual judgements of bibliographers with an accuracy of 87%, even on text that is the output of OCR.

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