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Detecting What Authors Took from Earlier Works

by Sarah Savant | May 2, 2018 | Early Arabic tradition | 0 comments

With text reuse detection, we rely on the power, speed, and memory of a computer to find common passages between texts. From our data so far, we can already see hundreds, or even thousands, of cases that point to the liquidity of the written tradition. By “liquid,” I...

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