Text Reuse with ACL: (Upward) Trends

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.

Acquiring Vocabulary for Predictive Text Entry through Dynamic Reuse of a Small User Corpus

Crowdsourcing Interaction Logs to Understand Text Reuse from the Web

We report on the construction of the Webis text reuse corpus 2012 for advanced research on text reuse. The corpus compiles manually written documents obtained from a completely controlled, yet representative environment that emulates the web. Each of the 297 documents in the corpus is about one of the 150 topics used at the TREC Web Tracks 2009–2011, thus forming a strong connection with existi...

METER: MEasuring TExt Reuse

In this paper we present results from the METER (MEasuring TExt Reuse) project whose aim is to explore issues pertaining to text reuse and derivation, especially in the context of newspapers using newswire sources. Although the reuse of text by journalists has been studied in linguistics, we are not aware of any investigation using existing computational methods for this particular task. We inv...

Prototype Synthesis for Model Laws

State legislatures often rely on existing text when drafting new bills. Resource and expertise constraints, which often drive this copying behavior, can be taken advantage of by lobbyists and special interest groups. These groups provide model bills, which encode policy agendas, with the intent that the models become actual law. Unfortunately, model legislation is often opaque to the public–bot...