大规模戏剧小册子：排版的统计比较分析

中文摘要 AI 辅助

我们提出一种统计方法，用于量化印刷历史书籍之间的字体相似性，为文献学分析提供加速工具。该方法利用从自动提取的字符图像聚类与对齐得到的字符原型，定义任意两本书之间的字体距离；为生成可操作结果，我们开发了a contrario统计框架来解释计算出的字体距离的显著性。将该方法应用于17世纪西班牙印刷戏剧小册子的文献学研究，其规模超出人类专家系统视觉检查的能力，可自动比较不同书籍中提取的罗马体与斜体。经人类专家验证后，该方法已发现新的印刷商归属并修订了原有归属，成功表明其具备实现比以往更大规模数字文献学的潜力。

英文摘要

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.

发表机构

• ENS Paris-Saclay（巴黎萨克雷高等师范学校）
• Universidade de Santiago de Compostela（圣地亚哥德孔波斯特拉大学）
• Lingnan University（岭南大学）

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