2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Mapping the Early Modern News Flow: An Enquiry by Robust Text Reuse Detection
Authors : Giovanni Colavizza, Mario Infelise, Frédéric Kaplan
Published in: Social Informatics
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Early modern printed gazettes relied on a system of news exchange and text reuse largely based on handwritten sources. The reconstruction of this information exchange system is possible by detecting reused texts. We present a method to individuate text borrowings within noisy OCRed texts from printed gazettes based on string kernels and local text alignment. We apply our methods on a corpus of Italian gazettes for the year 1648. Beside unveiling substantial overlaps in news sources, we are able to assess the editorial policy of different gazettes and account for a multi-faceted system of text reuse.