Abstract
If we want to apply natural language processing and information retrieval methods to historical texts, we have to cope with the three issues discussed in Chapter 3:
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spellings that differ from today’s orthography (difference);
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spellings that are highly variable and often inconsistent (variance); and
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uncertainty such as transcription artifacts and digitization errors.
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Piotrowski, M. (2012). Handling Spelling Variation. In: Natural Language Processing for Historical Texts. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02146-6_6
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