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Computational Methods for Uncovering Reprinted Texts in Antebellum Newspapers

David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, Abby Mullen, 2015. American Literary History.

Describes the Viral Texts project's methods for finding reprinted texts across pre-Civil War American newspapers in the Chronicling America archive.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1093/alh/ajv029Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

The inductive-methods survey cites it as a text-reuse detection method for finding near-identical passages across pages (U3).

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Smith, D. A., Cordell, R., & Mullen, A. (2015). Computational Methods for Uncovering Reprinted Texts in Antebellum Newspapers. American Literary History. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajv029
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