Philology as a dynamic system

Abstract

In this article we introduce a formal approach to the evolution of documents with particular attention to the philological perspective and the typical related issues. We propose a mathematical model capable of formalizing various complex phenomena in various research fields such as Computational Linguistics, Digital Philology and Software Engineering, in particular when this is applied to the analysis of documents and texts of historical and literary interest.

Keywords

• evolutionary approach
• formal model
• textual and documental analysis
• dynamic system
• computational philology