AI and the editor
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2023-11
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Whittle, Sophie
O’Sullivan, James
Pidd, Michael
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Future Text Publishing
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Digital scholarly editing remains an industrial craft: the materials, medium and methods are technological, but the work itself remains largely manual and bespoke. And because digital editions are labour intensive, they can be limited in scale. Editors - that is, textual scholars and the makers of editions - were among the first in the arts and humanities to recognise the publishing affordances of the digital. And so it is surprising that machine learning and natural language processing have not yet played a greater role in scholarly editing; that newer forms of computation have not advanced editions to the same degree as markup languages did in the final decades of the twentieth century.
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Digital scholarly editing , AI
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Whittle, S., O’Sullivan, J. and Pidd, M. (2023)' AI and the editor', in Hegland, F. A. (ed.) The Future of Text Vol 4. Future Text Publishing, pp. 106-109. Available at: https://futuretextpublishing.com/vol4/ (Accessed: 15 November 2023)
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© 2023, the Authors. Published by Future Text Publishing. This work is freely available digitally, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.