Dating medieval English charters

DOI10.1214/12-AOAS566MaRDI QIDQ1940007zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gelila Tilahun, Andrey Feuerverger, Michael Gervers

Publication date 5 March 2013

Published in The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.2405, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1356629053

zbMATH Keywords

quantile regressioncross-validationgeneralized linear modelskernel smoothingbandwidth selectiontext miningDEEDS data setlocal log-likelihoodmaximum prevalence methodmedieval chartersnearest neighbor methods (kNN)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History, political science (91F10) Applications of statistics (62P99) Computing methodologies and applications (68U99)

Abstract: Deeds, or charters, dealing with property rights, provide a continuous documentation which can be used by historians to study the evolution of social, economic and political changes. This study is concerned with charters (written in Latin) dating from the tenth through early fourteenth centuries in England. Of these, at least one million were left undated, largely due to administrative changes introduced by William the Conqueror in 1066. Correctly dating such charters is of vital importance in the study of English medieval history. This paper is concerned with computer-automated statistical methods for dating such document collections, with the goal of reducing the considerable efforts required to date them manually and of improving the accuracy of assigned dates. Proposed methods are based on such data as the variation over time of word and phrase usage, and on measures of distance between documents. The extensive (and dated) Documents of Early England Data Set (DEEDS) maintained at the University of Toronto was used for this purpose.

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• ElemStatLearn
• KernSmooth

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