Computer-Assisted Stemmatology Challenge

Stemmatology (a.k.a. stemmatics) studies relations among different variants of a document that have been gradually built from an original by copying and modifying earlier versions. The aim of such study is to reconstruct the family tree of the variants. We invite applications of established and, in particular, novel approaches, including but of course not restricted to hierarchical clustering, graphical modeling, link analysis, phylogenetics, string-matching, etc. The objective of the challenge is to evaluate the performance of various approaches. Several sets of variants for different texts are provided, and the participants should attempt to reconstruct the relationships of the variants in each data-set. This enables the comparison of methods usually applied in unsupervised scenarios.