http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1761144841

Shuo Wen Jie Zi - Dianzi Ban digital recension of the eastern Han Chinese grammaticon

Access to information for the study of historical Chinese language is impeded by the difficulties inherent in the ancient and modern Chinese scripts. The work presented in this dissertation seeks to address these issues within the framework of a digital image-based computerized system developed to identify and index distinctive features used in rendering modern script entities, and to relate these features to those to be found in earlier script forms. With this mechanism, it becomes possible to give precise digital representation of the script entities and of the texts within which they occur. Representation of Chinese texts using a Chinese Character Description Language (CDL) enables precise intra-textual and inter-textual mappings, and greatly facilitates information exchange between old texts.

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