CITATION.cff

cff-version: 1.2.0
title: "TRACE: Textual Reuse, Alignment, and Collation Engine"
message: "If you use TRACE in academic work, please cite it using the metadata below."
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Schnabel
    given-names: Benjamin
    email: benjamin.schnabel@ephe.psl.eu
    affiliation: "École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université PSL"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9697-607X"
repository-code: "https://github.com/bsesic/trace"
url: "https://tracealign.readthedocs.io"
license: MIT
version: "0.2.0"
date-released: "2026-05-27"
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: "10.5281/zenodo.20315408"
    description: "Concept DOI — always resolves to the latest archived release."
  - type: doi
    value: "10.5281/zenodo.20440062"
    description: "Version DOI for TRACE 0.2.0."
keywords:
  - philology
  - textual-criticism
  - alignment
  - collation
  - hebrew
  - digital-humanities
  - needleman-wunsch
  - manuscripts
  - tei
abstract: >-
  TRACE is a Python library for philological alignment with pluggable language
  packs. It implements semi-global Needleman-Wunsch with affine gap penalties
  (Gotoh) and a multi-token abbreviation-span lookahead for pairwise alignment,
  returning matches annotated with a tiered reason (exact, niqqud-stripped,
  plene/defective, abbreviation, orthographic, insertion, omission, no-match).
  Version 0.2 adds simultaneous multi-witness alignment that produces a canonical
  variant graph plus a derived aligned table view, via pairwise distances, an
  UPGMA guide tree, and partial-order alignment-based progressive merging. The
  first shipped language pack covers Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew.