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

Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-05 Thread Tino Wildenhain
andrew cooke wrote: On Feb 4, 10:20 pm, Nick Matzke 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 - http:/

Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-05 Thread andrew cooke
On Feb 4, 10:20 pm, Nick Matzke 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 - http://www.nltk.org/ it

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 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 differ

Re: Comparing two book chapters (text files)

2009-02-04 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, 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