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A machine can analyze large quantities of text with perfect recall. This is particularly advantageous when working with lesser known texts with which readers have a limited degree of familiarity. Other possible applications include indentifying the author of an unattributed piece, or reavealing a point at which an author first read a work.
"Allusion" is interpreted as current texct that shers something witht he source text: words, orthography, meanings, syntactical relations, etc. Using 'compare,' the computer can detect a measure of similarity between two pieces of text, which defines them as potentially allusive.
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| Interfaces | command line |
| Programs | compare.c, compare.pl |
| Source languages | C, Perl |
| License verified by | Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31 |
| Entry compiled by | Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> |
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