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Claus Huitfeldt

Professor
Department of Philosophy
  • E-mailClaus.Huitfeldt@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 30 13913 48 030
  • Visitor Address
    Sydnesplassen 12/13 / Harald Hårfagresgt 1
    Bergen
    Room 
    507
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7805
    5020 Bergen

After having finished my "magister" degree at the University of Trondheim in 1984 I worked on the Norwegian Wittgenstein Project, until in 1990 I founded the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen. I directed this project until the publication of Wittgenstein's Nachlass: The Bergen Electronic Edition (Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN-10: 0192686917). This was the first complete publication of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Nachlass, and one of the first digital text critical editions of its size and kind.

Since then I have worked, philosophically as well as text-technologically, with methods for the representation, manipulation and analysis of documents, as well as with questions about their ontological and epistemological status. Text encoding and transcription are central themes in this work, which focuses especially on two subjects:

  • Identity conditions and similarity measures for texts in general, and for digital documents in particular
  • Representation, manipulation and analysis of complex documents with overlapping, discontinuous, unordered or multiply ordered elements.

 

Some recent talks:

Huitfeldt, Claus, and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen. “Document similarity: Transcription, edit distances, vocabulary overlap, and the metaphysics of documents.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2020, Washington, DC, July 27 - 31, 2020. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2020. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 25 (2020). https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol25.Huitfeldt01.

Sperberg-McQueen, C.M., and Huitfeldt, Claus: "Bootstrapping Project-specific Spell-checkers". Paper given at Digital Humanities 2019, Utrecht, 8-.12-07.2019. Slides: http://mlcd.blackmesatech.com/mlcd/2019/Talks/Utrecht-201907/index.xml Abstract: https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0961.html

Huitfeldt, Claus, and Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.: "Interpreting Difference Among Transcripts". Paper given at Digital Humanities 2018, Mexico City, 26.-29.06.2018. Slides: http://mlcd.blackmesatech.com/mlcd/2018/Talks/MexicoDF-201806/index.en.xml Abstract: https://dh2018.adho.org/en/interpreting-difference-among-transcripts/

 

 

 

  • Show author(s) (2023). The metaphysics of documents.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Are Ontologies Trees or Lattices? Digital Humanities Quarterly.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Document similarity. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Bootstrapping Project-specific Spell-checkers.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Interpreting Difference Among Transcripts.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Transcriptional Implicature: Using a Transcript to Reason about an Exemplar.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Systèmes de balisage de textes et editions numérique. 24 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). XML Structured attributes, change tracking, and the metaphysics of documents.
  • Show author(s) (2015). UnderDok: XML Structured attributes, change tracking, and the metaphysics of document. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Transcriptional Implicature: A Contribution To Markup Semantics.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Markup technology and textual scholarship. 22 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Document lattices: Equivalence, compatibility, and contradiction in document markup. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Modeling overlapping structures: Graphs and serializability. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2012). The MLCD Overlap Corpus (MOC): Project report. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Ten problems in the interpretation of XML documents. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Modeling overlapping structures: Graphs and serializability.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Documents as Timed Abstract Objects. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2011). TagAl: A tag algebra for document markup. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2011). TagAl: A tag algebra for document markup.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Expressive power of markup languages and graph structures.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Visualizing the semantics of TEI Lite.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Two representations of the semantics of TEI Lite.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The MLCD overlap corpus: A markup research infrastructure.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The MLCD Overlap Corpus (MOC).
  • Show author(s) (2010). Extension of the type/token distinction to document structure. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2009). What is transcription? (part 2).
  • Show author(s) (2009). Markup Meaning and Mereology. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Formal and informal meaning from documents through skeleton sentences: Complementing formal tag-set descriptions with intertextual semantics and vice-versa. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2008). What is transcription? Literary & Linguistic Computing. 295-310.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Markup Discontinued: Discontinuity in TexMecs, Goddag structures, and rabbit/duck grammars. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Goddag.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Complex Document Structures.
  • Show author(s) (2007). What is transcription?
  • Show author(s) (2007). Thoughts about Texts and other Things.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Text Technology and Philosophy.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Preserving Information About Linearization in Document Graphs.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Markup Technology and Textual Structures.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Representation and processing of Goddag structures: implementation strategies and progress report.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Philosophy Case Study. 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Markup Languages for Complex Documents - An Interim Project Report.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Text Technology and Textual Criticism. Linguistica Computazionale. 259-275.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Text Technology and Critical Editing.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Text Technology and Critical Editing.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Scholarly Text Processing and Future Markup Systems. 17 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Notation, data structure and grammar for non-hierarchical structures.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Markup Languages for Complex Documents.
  • Show author(s) (2004). GODDAG: A data structure for overlapping hierarchies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). 139-160.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Editorial Principles of Wittgenstein's Nachlass: The Bergen Electronic Edition. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Digitaliseringen av Holbergs samlede skrifter. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2003). XML Semantics and Digital Libraries.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Towards a semantics for XML.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Scholarly Text Processing and Future Markup Systems.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Kommentering i lys av de muligheter datateknologi tilbyr.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Hva er tekst.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Editorial Principles of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass – The Bergen Electronic Edition.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Editorial Principles of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass – The Bergen Electronic Edition.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Digitalisering for gjenutgivelse av Holbergs skrifter.
  • Show author(s) (2003). A logic programming environment for document semantics and inference. Literary & Linguistic Computing. 225-233.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Drawing inferences on the basis of markup.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Markup Discontinued. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (1998). Concurrent Document Hierarchies in MECS and SGML.
  • Show author(s) (1998). Computer Aided Text Encoding and Textual Scholarship.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Philosophy and Electronic Publishing. Theory and Metatheory in the Development of Text Encoding. The Monist. 348-367.
  • Show author(s) (1995). Wittgenstein's Nachlass revisited.
  • Show author(s) (1995). Multi-Dimensional Texts in a One-Dimensional Medium. Computers and the Humanities. 235-241.
  • Show author(s) (1994). Toward a Machine-Readable Version of Wittgenstein's Nachlass: Some Editorial Problems. Editio : Internationales Jahrbuch für Editionswissenschaft. 37-43.
  • Show author(s) (1994). Computerizing Wittgenstein - The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1993). Manuscript Encoding: Alphatexts and Betatexts.
  • Show author(s) (1993). MECS - A Multi-Element Code System.
  • Show author(s) (1993). Encoding Wittgenstein.
  • Show author(s) (1992). The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen - Annual Report 1991. (Norwegian-English parallel text.). .
  • Show author(s) (1992). Multi-Dimensional Texts in a One-Dimensional Medium. 5. 5. .
  • Show author(s) (1991). The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen - Background, Project Plan and Annual Report 1990. (Norwegian-English parallel text.). .
  • Show author(s) (1991). Das Wittgenstein-Archiv der Universit@æt Bergen. Hintergrund und erster Arbeitsbericht mit Nachtrag: Wittgenstein-Nachla@s: Nothing is hidden. Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv. 93-106.

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Fields of competence 
Editorial philology
Logic
Philosophy of language
Text technology