Linda,
You might want to try WCopyFind from
http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/Wsoftware.html
It's free.
Przemek
Linda Bawcom wrote (2005-06-02 14:02):
> Dear Nancy,
>
> Although I have not been following this thread too closely since I am
> not using the web as a corpus, your reference to a tool for near
> duplicate detection caught my eye as my small corpus (approx. 120,000
> running words) is taken from Lexis Nexis newspaper articles. Although
> I tried to avoid it as much as possible, a number of the articles are
> compilations from newswire services and/or major newspapers (and who
> knows how many others are but perhaps not cited).
>
> While I realize that through my concordance lines I can detect some
> duplication, due to the kind of research I'm doing, it would be
> extremely helpful to know exactly how much has been borrowed. (For
> that reason, I was even entertaining the thought of running them
> through a program that is used to identify plagiarism, but
> unfortunately they are rather pricey and the University of Houston
> doesn't (to the best of my knowledge) have a program such as this -at
> least not available to adjuncts!)
>
> Truthfully, in the end, it may not be of any importance, but I would
> like to cover the possibility. Any advice or suggestions you or anyone
> else who has used newspaper articles for their corpus might have would
> be very much appreciated.
>
> Best wishes,
> Linda Bawcom (currently at the University of Liverpool)
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