Modern critical editions of ancient works generally include manually created indices of other sources quoted in the text. Since indices can be considered as a form of domain specific language, the paper presents a parsing-based approach to the problem of extracting information from them to support the creation of a collection of fragmentary texts. The paper first considers the characteristics and structure of quotation indices and their importance when dealing with fragmentary texts. Lastly are presented the results of applying a fuzzy parser to the OCR transcription of an index of quotations to extract information from potentially noisy input.

 

 When Printed Hypertexts Go Digital: Information Extraction from the Parsing of Indices (preprint)