Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-05 Thread andrew cooke
On Feb 4, 10:20 pm, Nick Matzke mat...@berkeley.edu wrote: So I have an interesting challenge.  I want to compare two book chapters, which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage similarity and (b) what has changed. no idea if it will help, but i found this yesterday -

Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-05 Thread Tino Wildenhain
andrew cooke wrote: On Feb 4, 10:20 pm, Nick Matzke mat...@berkeley.edu wrote: So I have an interesting challenge. I want to compare two book chapters, which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage similarity and (b) what has changed. no idea if it will help, but i found

Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-05 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2009-02-05 02:20, Nick Matzke wrote: Hi all, So I have an interesting challenge. I want to compare two book chapters, which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage similarity and (b) what has changed. Some features make this problem different than what seems to be the

Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-04 Thread Nick Matzke
Hi all, So I have an interesting challenge. I want to compare two book chapters, which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage similarity and (b) what has changed. Some features make this problem different than what seems to be the standard text-matching problem solvable

Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-04 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Nick Matzke mat...@berkeley.edu wrote: Hi all, So I have an interesting challenge. I want to compare two book chapters, which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage similarity and (b) what has changed. Some features make this problem

Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-04 Thread Nick Matzke
Chris Rebert wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Nick Matzke mat...@berkeley.edu wrote: Hi all, So I have an interesting challenge. I want to compare two book chapters, which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage similarity and (b) what has changed. Some features make