A Computational Model of Text Reuse in Ancient Literary Texts

We propose a computational model of text reuse tailored for ancient literary texts, available to us often only in small and noisy samples. The model takes into account source alternation patterns, so as to be able to align even sentences with low surface similarity. We demonstrate its ability to characterize text reuse in the Greek New Testament.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ACL
• Authors: John Lee
• Keywords: ACL 2007, Ancient Literary Texts, Computational Linguistics, Source Alternation Patterns, Text Reuse