TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hoenen, Armin
T1  - An open problem in computational stemmatology - a model for contamination
T2  - Umanistica Digitale
N2  - In this contribution, two open problems in computational stemmatology are being considered. The first one is contamination, an umbrella term referring to all phenomena of admixture of text variants resulting from scribes considering more than one manuscript or even memory when copying a text. This problem is one of the biggest to date in stemmatology since it implies an entirely different formal approach to the reconstruction of the copy history of a tradition and in turn to the reconstruction of an urtext. (Maas 1937) famously stated that there is no remedy against contamination and (Pasquali and Pieraccioni 1952) coined the terms 'open' vs. 'closed' recensions to distinguish contaminated from uncontaminated. We present a graph theoretical model which formally accommodates traditions with any degree of contamination while maintaining a temporal ordering and give combinatorial numbers and formula on the implication for numbers of possible scenarios.
KW  - computational stemmatology
KW  - theoretical  stemmatology
KW  - contamination
KW  - multi edge set graph
KW  - counting stemmata
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53223
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-532231
SN  - 2532-8816
N1  - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
VL  - 3
IS  - 5
SP  - 35
EP  - 57
PB  - University of Bologna
CY  - Bologna
ER  -