Balisage Paper: Transcriptional implicature

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2026
August 3 - 7, 2026

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Slides and Materials

Bal2026-Huitfeldt-presentation-pdf.zip: Presentation slides in Adobe PDF

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Huitfeldt, Claus, and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen. What is transcription? Literary & Linguistic Computing 23.3 (2008): 295-310. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqn013.

Huitfeldt, Claus, Yves Marcoux, and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen. Extension of the type/token distinction to document structure. Paper presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010, Montréal, Canada, August 3 - 6, 2010. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 5 (2010). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol5.Huitfeldt01. On the Web at [https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol5/html/Huitfeldt01/BalisageVol5-Huitfeldt01.html], accessed October 2026.

Huitfeldt, Claus and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen. Transcriptional Implicature: Using a Transcript to Reason about an Exemplar. In Digital Humanities 2017 Conference Abstracts, p. 266. On the Web at [http://blackmesatech.com/2017/08/MLCD/], accessed October 2026.

Huitfeldt, Claus and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen. Document similarity: Transcription, edit distances, vocabulary overlap, and the metaphysics of documents. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2020, Washington, DC, July 27 - 31, 2020. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2020. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 25 (2020). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol25.Huitfeldt01. On the Web at [https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol25/html/Huitfeldt01/BalisageVol25-Huitfeldt01.html], accessed October 2026.

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Marcoux, Yves and Élias Rizkallah. Exploring intertextual semantics: A reflection on attributes and optionality. Paper given at Extreme Markup Languages®, Montréal, 2007. Proceedings of Extreme Markup Languages® 2007. On the Web at [https://marcoux.ebsi.umontreal.ca/publi/EML2007/EML2007Marcoux01.pdf], accessed October 2026.

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Sperberg-McQueen, C. M., David Dubin, Claus Huitfeldt, and Allen Renear. Drawing inferences on the basis of markup. Paper given at Extreme Markup Languages®, Montréal, 2002. Proceedings of Extreme Markup Languages® 2002. On the Web at wwp.northeastern.edu (PDF) and www.semanticscholar.org.

Sperberg-McQueen, C. M., Claus Huitfeldt, and Yves Marcoux. What is transcription? Part 2. Talk given at Digital Humanities 2009, College Park, Maryland. Slides on the Web at [http://blackmesatech.com/2009/06/dh2009/]. Summary at [https://archive.mith.umd.edu/dh09/wp-content/uploads/dh09_conferencepreceedings_final.pdf], pp. 257-260, accessed October 2026.

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Sperberg-McQueen, C. M., Yves Marcoux, and Claus Huitfeldt. Transcriptional implicature: A contribution to markup semantics. Unpublished, 2018. [XML / HTML], accessed October 2026.

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