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Literary and Linguistic Computing 1993 8(2):81-84; doi:10.1093/llc/8.2.81
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Scanning dante's the Divine Comedy. A Computer based Approach

DAVID ROBEY

University of Manchester UK

Department of Italian Studies, The University, Manchester M13 9PL, UK E-mail: d.robey{at}uk.ac.manchester
The article discusses the need for an electronic text of the Divine Comedy that is metrically scanned in terms of accents and syllable divisions, the means for producing it, and the problems involved in doing so. Automatic procedures for marking accents and counting syllables are outlined, together with their limitations, the latter being especially severe in the case of this particular text. The conclusion is drawn that an interactive program offers the best means of scanning the text metrically, and a description is given of such a program written for this purpose, and of the kind of results that it may be expected to achieve.


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