A decision support system for the reading of ancient documents
The research presented in this thesis is based in the Humanities discipline of Ancient History and begins by attempting to understand the interpretation process involved in reading ancient documents and how this process can be aided by computer systems such as Decision Support Systems (DSS). The thesis balances between the use of IT tools to aid Humanities research and the understanding that Humanities research must involve human beings. It does not attempt to develop a system that can automate the reading of ancient documents. Instead it seeks to demonstrate and develop tools that can support this process in the five areas: remembering complex reasoning, searching huge datasets, international collaboration, publishing editions, and image enhancement. This research contains a large practical element involving the development of a DSS prototype. The prototype is used to illustrate how a DSS, by remembering complex reasoning, can aid the process of interpretation that is reading ancient documents. It is based on the idea that the interpretation process goes through a network of interpretation. The network of interpretation illustrates a recursive process where scholars move between reading levels such as âthese
Roued-Cunliffe, Henriette
Roman archeology ; Latin ; Computational Linguistics ; Decision science ; Program development and tools ; Internet and science and learning ; Library & information science ; Digital Humanities ; Roman Britain ; decision support system ; humanities IT ; artificial intelligence ; cognition ; e-science ; regular expressions
A decision support system for the reading of ancient documents. The research presented in this thesis is based in the Humanities discipline of Ancient History and begins by attempting to understand the interpretation process involved in reading ancient documents and how this process can be aided by computer systems such as Decision Support Systems (DSS). The thesis balances between the use of IT tools to aid Humanities research and the understanding that Humanities research must involve human beings. It does not attempt to develop a system that can automate the reading of ancient documents. Instead it seeks to demonstrate and develop tools that can support this process in the five areas: remembering complex reasoning, searching huge datasets, international collaboration, publishing editions, and image enhancement. This research contains a large practical element involving the development of a DSS prototype. The prototype is used to illustrate how a DSS, by remembering complex reasoning, can aid the process of interpretation that is reading ancient documents. It is based on the idea that the interpretation process goes through a network of interpretation. The network of interpretation illustrates a recursive process where scholars move between reading levels such as âthese
decision support system read ancient_document present base discipline ancient_history begin attempt interpretation process_involve reading ancient_document process aid computer system decision support systems balance use tool aid must involve human_being attempt_develop system automate reading ancient_document instead seek_develop tool support process area remembering complex reasoning search huge datasets international collaboration publishing edition image enhancement contains large practical element involve development prototype prototype use_illustrate remember complex reasoning aid process interpretation read ancient_document base_idea interpretation process network interpretation network interpretation illustrate recursive process scholar move reading level