Can the Enoch model date undated manuscripts reliably from handwriting alone?
Most likely: enoch dates manuscripts to within about 30 years, comparable to radiocarbon, and can replace palaeographic…Ahead on the evidence, not yet confirmed. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
Where it stands
Four answers have been proposed. Enoch dates manuscripts to within about 30 years, comparable to radiocarbon, and can replace palaeographic… leads, with evidence 2 for: partly supported by its tests. Three are still possible.
Why it matters
Enoch's predictions for 135 undated manuscripts are the largest new set of dates; whether they can be trusted depends on how the model generalises beyond 24 training dates[1].
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History
- Popović et al. puts forward: enoch dates manuscripts to within about 30 years, comparable to radiocarbon, and can replace palaeographic…
- Silva puts forward: enoch is a useful coarse prior but too lightly trained to settle individual dates; its accuracy on undated…
- Popović et al.: mean absolute error 27.9 to 30.7 years; 85 per cent overlap with radiocarbon on 13 unseen test images.For: Enoch dates manuscripts to within about 30 years, comparable to radiocarbon, and can replace palaeographic…
- Silva: the 79 per cent figure rests on palaeographers' judgement of what is realistic, not on independent dates.For: Enoch is a useful coarse prior but too lightly trained to settle individual dates; its accuracy on undated…
- Anderson: a palaeographer cautioned that such tools should not be the basis for firm conclusions.For: Enoch is a useful coarse prior but too lightly trained to settle individual dates; its accuracy on undated…
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