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title = "The Historical Significance of Textual Distances",
author = "Underwood, Ted",
editor = "Alex, Beatrice and
Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania and
Feldman, Anna and
Kazantseva, Anna and
Reiter, Nils and
Szpakowicz, Stan",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Joint {SIGHUM} Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature",
month = aug,
year = "2018",
address = "Santa Fe, New Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-4507",
pages = "60--69",
abstract = "Measuring similarity is a basic task in information retrieval, and now often a building-block for more complex arguments about cultural change. But do measures of textual similarity and distance really correspond to evidence about cultural proximity and differentiation? To explore that question empirically, this paper compares textual and social measures of the similarities between genres of English-language fiction. Existing measures of textual similarity (cosine similarity on tf-idf vectors or topic vectors) are also compared to new strategies that strive to anchor textual measurement in a social context.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[The Historical Significance of Textual Distances](https://aclanthology.org/W18-4507) (Underwood, LaTeCH 2018)
ACL
- Ted Underwood. 2018. The Historical Significance of Textual Distances. In Proceedings of the Second Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, pages 60–69, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.