- claus.huitfeldt@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55583013
- 913 48 030
- Visitor address
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Sydnesplassen 12/13 / Harald Hårfagresgt 1
Bergen - Room: 507
- Postal address
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P.O. Box 7805NO-5020 BergenNorway
Research
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/
Publications
2023
2017
2015
2014
- Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.; Marcoux, Yves; Huitfeldt, Claus (2014). Transcriptional Implicature: A Contribution To Markup Semantics. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2014). Markup technology and textual scholarship. (external link)
- Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.; Marcoux, Yves; Huitfeldt, Claus (2014). Document lattices: Equivalence, compatibility, and contradiction in document markup. (external link)
2012
- Sperberg-McQueen, Michael; Huitfeldt, Claus (2012). Ten problems in the interpretation of XML documents. (external link)
- Marcoux, Yves; Huitfeldt, Claus; Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. (2012). The MLCD Overlap Corpus (MOC): Project report. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus; Vitali, Fabio; Peroni, Silvio (2012). Documents as Timed Abstract Objects. (external link)
- Marcoux, Yves; Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.; Huitfeldt, Claus (2012). Modeling overlapping structures: Graphs and serializability. (external link)
2011
- Johnsen, Lars Gunnarsønn; Huitfeldt, Claus (2011). TagAl: A tag algebra for document markup. (external link)
- Marcoux, Yves; Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.; Huitfeldt, Claus (2011). Expressive power of markup languages and graph structures. (external link)
- Johnsen, Lars Gunnarsønn; Huitfeldt, Claus (2011). TagAl: A tag algebra for document markup. (external link)
2010
- Huitfeldt, Claus; Marcoux, Yves; Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. (2010). Extension of the type/token distinction to document structure. (external link)
- Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.; Marcoux, Yves; Huitfeldt, Claus (2010). Visualizing the semantics of TEI Lite. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus; Marcoux, Yves (2010). The MLCD overlap corpus: A markup research infrastructure. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus; Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.; Marcoux, Yves (2010). The MLCD Overlap Corpus (MOC). (external link)
- Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.; Marcoux, Yves; Huitfeldt, Claus (2010). Two representations of the semantics of TEI Lite. (external link)
2009
- Marcoux, Yves; Sperberg-McQueen, C. Michael; Huitfeldt, Claus (2009). Formal and informal meaning from documents through skeleton sentences: Complementing formal tag-set descriptions with intertextual semantics and vice-versa. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus; Sperberg-McQueen, C. Michael; Marcoux, Yves (2009). Markup Meaning and Mereology. (external link)
- Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.; Huitfeldt, Claus; Marcoux, Yves (2009). What is transcription? (part 2). (external link)
2008
- Huitfeldt, Claus; Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. (2008). What is transcription?. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus; Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. (2008). Complex Document Structures. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus; Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. (2008). Goddag. (external link)
- Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.; Huitfeldt, Claus (2008). Markup Discontinued: Discontinuity in TexMecs, Goddag structures, and rabbit/duck grammars. (external link)
2007
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2007). Thoughts about Texts and other Things. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2007). Text Technology and Philosophy. (external link)
- Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.; Huitfeldt, Claus (2007). What is transcription?. (external link)
- Johnsen, Lars G; Huitfeldt, Claus (2007). Preserving Information About Linearization in Document Graphs. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2007). Markup Technology and Textual Structures. (external link)
2006
- Huitfeldt, Claus; Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. (2006). Representation and processing of Goddag structures: implementation strategies and progress report. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus; Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.; Dubin, David (2006). Markup Languages for Complex Documents - An Interim Project Report. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2006). Philosophy Case Study. (external link)
2004
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2004). Text Technology and Textual Criticism. (external link)
- Sperberg-McQueen, CM; Huitfeldt, Claus (2004). GODDAG: A data structure for overlapping hierarchies. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2004). Text Technology and Critical Editing. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2004). Notation, data structure and grammar for non-hierarchical structures. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2004). Markup Languages for Complex Documents. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2004). Text Technology and Critical Editing. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2004). Editorial Principles of Wittgenstein's Nachlass: The Bergen Electronic Edition. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2004). Scholarly Text Processing and Future Markup Systems. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2004). Digitaliseringen av Holbergs samlede skrifter. (external link)
2003
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2003). Scholarly Text Processing and Future Markup Systems. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2003). Digitalisering for gjenutgivelse av Holbergs skrifter. (external link)
- Renear, Allen H.; Dubin, David; Sperberg-McQueen, C. Michael et al. (2003). XML Semantics and Digital Libraries. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2003). Editorial Principles of Wittgensteins Nachlass The Bergen Electronic Edition. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2003). Kommentering i lys av de muligheter datateknologi tilbyr. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2003). Hva er tekst. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (2003). Editorial Principles of Wittgensteins Nachlass The Bergen Electronic Edition. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus; Sperberg-McQueen, C. Michael (2003). Towards a semantics for XML. (external link)
- Dubin, David; Sperberg-McQueen, C. Michael; Renear, Allen H. et al. (2003). A logic programming environment for document semantics and inference. (external link)
1998
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1994
1993
1992
1991
- Huitfeldt, Claus (1991). Das Wittgenstein-Archiv der Universit@æt Bergen. Hintergrund und erster Arbeitsbericht mit Nachtrag: Wittgenstein-Nachla@s: Nothing is hidden. (external link)
- Huitfeldt, Claus (1991). The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen - Background, Project Plan and Annual Report 1990. (Norwegian-English parallel text.). (external link)