Using the MatchDetectReveal System for Comparative Analysis of Texts
Krisztián Monostori, Arkady Zaslavsky, Alejandro Bia Platas · 2001
In this paper we are introducing the MatchDetectReveal system, which is capable of identifying the similarity between documents. Different applications of the system are discussed including cross-referencing multiple editions of literary works, plagiarism detection, organizing collections of documents and comparative analysis of texts. The system uses suffix trees and suffix vectors for comparing documents. These data structures are very fast and powerful, which allows fast comparison of documents. The front-end of the system is fully Web-based, thus users only need to use a Web browser to access the system. The results are also presented as HTML files utilising the hyperlink capabilities of HTML documents.