On the Reconstruction of Text Phylogeny Trees: Evaluation and Analysis of Textual Relationships.

ABSTRACT: Over the history of mankind, textual records change. Sometimes due to mistakes during transcription, sometimes on purpose, as a way to rewrite facts and reinterpret history. There are several classical cases, such as the logarithmic tables, and the transmission of antique and medieval scholarship. Today, text documents are largely edited and redistributed on the Web. Articles on news portals and collaborative platforms (such as Wikipedia), source code, posts on social networks, and even scientific publications or literary works are some examples in which textual content can be subject to changes in an evolutionary process. In this scenario, given a set of near-duplicate documents, it is worthwhile to find which one is the original and the history of changes that created the whole set. Such

SUBMITTER: Marmerola GD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5167249 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature