The Logic and Discovery of Textual Allusion
David Bamman, Gregory Crane · 2008
We describe here a method for discovering imitative textual allusions in a large collection of Classical Latin poetry. In translating the logic of literary allusion into computational terms, we include not only traditional IR variables such as token similarity and n-grams, but also incorporate a comparison of syntactic structure as well. This provides a more robust search method for Classical languages since it accomodates their relatively free word order and rich inflection, and has the potential to improve fuzzy string searching in other languages as well. 1