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ELECTRONIC TEXT REUSE ACQUISITION PROJECT INTRODUCTION & MOTIVATION

Marco Büchler, Greta Franzini, Emily Franzini

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 1. Who are we?
• 2. Motivation

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WHO ARE WE?

WHO AM I?

• 2001-2002: Head of Quality Assurance department in a software

company;

• 2006: Diploma in Computer Science on big scale co-occurrence

analysis;

• 2007: Consultant for several SMEs in IT sector;
• 2008: Technical project management of the eAQUA project;
• 2011: PI and project manager of the eTRACES project;
• 2013: PhD in Digital Humanities on Text Reuse;
• 2014: Head of Early Career Research Group eTRAP at the University
• f Göttingen.

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ABOUT ME

Education

• Humanities & Further Maths Diploma (IT)
• Classics BA Honours (UK)
• Digital Humanities MA (UK)
• Part-time PhD student (UCLDH, UK): Digital Editions
• Catalogue of Digital Editions (now a collaboration with ACDH)
• Digital edition of an ancient Latin manuscript

Work

• Full-time post-doctoral researcher for eTRAP Early Career Research

Group (DE): Automatic Text Reuse Detection and Analysis

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WHO AM I?

• 2008-2011: BA Latin & Ancient Greek at University College London
• 2011-2012: MSc Management Science & Innovation at University

College London

• 2012-2013: Liaison Officer and Administration for the preservation
• f cultural assets at FAI
• 2013-2014: Research Associate at University of Leipzig (Chair for

Digital Humanities)

• 2014-2016: Research Associate at University of Göttingen (Digital

Humanities in Dept. Computer Science)

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MOTIVATION

VENICE 2016 - TRACER TUTORIAL

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WHO IS THIS PERSON?

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“REUSE FROM SAME SOURCE”: COMMONALITIES & DIFFERENCES

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WITTGENSTEIN’S “FAMILY RESEMBLANCE”

Family resemblance is an equivalence relation that clusters common

• bjects of similar and not identical characteristics together.

Family resemblance is hierarchical such as in the examples before “Greta”, “Franzinis”, “Human”, ”creature“.

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FORENSIC VIEW

Evaluation of the reuse detection process by forensic criterions (standard in biometry):

• Universality: How univeral can a characteristic be? (example: for

about 2% of all humans no fingerprint can be taken)

• Uniqueness: Different and independent “instances” should not share

common characteristic.

• Permanence: How resistent is a characteristic over time?
• Collectability: Characteristics should be easy and simple to detect.
• Performance: It includes precision, speed and robustness of the

measuring technique.

• Acceptability: Acceptance of the technique in (academic) usage.
• Circumvention: It should be as difficult as possible to cheat a

detection system.

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ETRAP’S OBJECTIVE

Title: eTRAP - electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project Premise: Language is a changing system. Compared to biometry the volatility is much higher.

• Research on the characteristics
• What are good characteristics?
• Which characteristics are stable and which are volatile and therefore

not helpful in the detection process?

• Research on the reuse process
• Begins with: Why do we quote what we quote?
• Passes by: If changes in the reuse process happen, why do they happen

and what is the model behind (if one exists)?

• Ends with: Understanding paraphrases and allusions

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ABOUT ETRAP

Electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project (eTRAP) Interdisciplinary Early Career Research Group funded by the German Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF). Budget: e1.6M. Duration: March 2015 - February 2019. Research since October 2015. Team: 4 core staff; 5-9 research & student assistants; Bachelor, Masters and PhD thesis students.

• Interdisciplinary: Classics, Computer Science, German Literature,

Mathematics, Philosophy, Cognitive Psychology and Literature Studies.

• International: Currently from eight nationalities.

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CONTACT

Visit us http://www.etrap.eu contact@etrap.eu Stealing from one is plagiarism, stealing from many is research (Wilson Mitzner, 1876-1933)

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LICENCE

The theme this presentation is based on is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Changes to the theme are the work of eTRAP.

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