“Any text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations;any text is the absorption and transformation of another.”—Julia Kristeva,Desire in Language Intertextuality has always been at the core of humanistic scholarly re...“Any text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations;any text is the absorption and transformation of another.”—Julia Kristeva,Desire in Language Intertextuality has always been at the core of humanistic scholarly research,but it is only very recently that we have been able to leverage computational methods to help us in this endeavor.TextPAIR is a software package built specifi cally to detect“text reuses,”a particular manifestation of intertextuality where authors borrow sequences from other texts.Built upon a shingles of n-grams representation of texts,the algorithm that drives TextPAIR relies on the relatively rare re-occurrence of any given n-gram to effi ciently fi nd common passages between texts.展开更多
文摘“Any text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations;any text is the absorption and transformation of another.”—Julia Kristeva,Desire in Language Intertextuality has always been at the core of humanistic scholarly research,but it is only very recently that we have been able to leverage computational methods to help us in this endeavor.TextPAIR is a software package built specifi cally to detect“text reuses,”a particular manifestation of intertextuality where authors borrow sequences from other texts.Built upon a shingles of n-grams representation of texts,the algorithm that drives TextPAIR relies on the relatively rare re-occurrence of any given n-gram to effi ciently fi nd common passages between texts.
