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From January 2026, we begin a new chapter. With KITAB-Transform (ERC, grant no. 101199672), we continue to investigate the ways that authors work, but now – thanks to recent advances in machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) – we can be more ambitious. Previously, we were able to detect near-verbatim matches; now we want to detect matches that are semantically similar but worded differently.

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