We are happy to announce the release of TextPAIR, a new sequence aligner focused on detecting reuses in large body of texts. In many ways, TextPAIR is a successor to the old TextPAIR and PhiloLine released in 2009. But it also differs in important ways which we will highlight here.
The ARTFL-Project has long worked on intertextuality (see our papers section on the ARTFL site), and finding ways to detect similar passages in running text. Although we found great success with PhiloLine, particularly in the context of the Commonplace...
Evaluating the Practices and Legacy of the Enlightenment on 19th Century Print Culture
ARTFL is proud to announce the release of two large-scale sequence alignment databases built within the context of a collaborative project with l'Observatoire de la Vie Littéraire (OBVIL). The goal of this project was to investigate the legacy of the French Enlightenment on 19th century print culture. Thanks to the release by the BNF of the "Très Grand Bibliothèque" (TGB), a collection of 128,000 texts from their digital archive,...
