Something Borrowed: Sequence Alignment and the Identification of Similar Passages in Large Text Collections

The following article describes a simple technique to identify lexically-similar passages in large collections of text using sequence alignment algorithms. Primarily used in the field of bioinformatics to identify similar segments of DNA in genome research, sequence alignment has also been employed...

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Main Authors: Mark Olsen, Russell Horton, Glenn Roe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2011-05-01
Series:Digital Studies
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Online Access:https://www.digitalstudies.org//articles/258