通过统计方法自动比对古籍字体，加速西班牙剧本文献的作者归属研究。
Theatre Chapbooks At Scale: A Statistical Comparative Analysis of Typography
- 基于字符图像聚类与对齐，计算不同书之间的字体距离。
- 在超过1700部17世纪西班牙剧本文献上验证，发现新印刷商归属。
- 为数字文献学提供可扩展的自动化分析工具，适合历史文献研究者。
我们提出一种统计方法，用于量化印刷古籍间字型的相似性，为文献学分析提供加速工具。通过自动提取字符图像并进行聚类与对齐，生成字符原型，定义任意两本书之间的字型距离。为获得可行动结论，我们构建了逆向统计框架以评估字型距离的显著性。该方法应用于17世纪西班牙印刷剧本文献的系统性研究，规模远超人工视觉检查的能力。方法可自动比较不同书籍中的罗马体与意大利体。经专家验证后，该方法成功发现新的印刷商归属，并修订了原有归因。这一成果表明，该方法具备实现更大规模数字文献学研究的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We propose a statistical methodology that quantifies the similarity of typefaces between printed historical books. This provides a tool that accelerates philological analysis. Using character prototypes derived from clustering and aligning automatically extracted character images, the method defines a typeface distance between any two books. To produce actionable outputs, we develop an a contrario statistical framework to interpret the significance of the computed typeface distances. We apply the method to the philological study of 17 th -century Spanish printed theatre chapbooks in a quantity that exceeds the capabilities of systematic visual inspection by human experts. Our method enables the automatic comparison of Roman and Italic types extracted from different books. After validation by human experts, our method has led to new printer attributions being discovered, and former printer attributions being revised. This success strongly suggests that our method has the potential to enable digital bibliography on a larger scale than was previously possible.
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