Approaching document analysis with a formal model

Riccardo Del Gratta, Federico Boschetti, Luigi Bambaci, Francesco Sarnari

Abstract: We introduce a formal approach to document and text analysis. The method proposed herein results in a mathematical and physical model/framework which can formalize different challenges in research fields such as computational linguistics, digital philology, and software engineering, principally if applied to document and text analysis. We examine texts and documents from an evolutionary perspective, where both corruption and correction are involved. We describe document evolution via fiber bundles formalism.