PAIR (Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations)

Last Updated: 11/7/2018 12:00:00 AM
Site: http://code.google.com/p/text-pair/

PAIR (Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations) is a free, open source sequence alignment algorithm for humanities text analysis. It identifies similar passages in a large corpus. Corpuses are indexed for future use, and incoming texts can be compared against the entire corpus.

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Creator(s): Mark Olsen and Russell Horton, Robert Voyer, Richard Whaling, Clovis Gladstone, and the rest of the ARTFL team.

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Type of analysis: Search Analysis Discovering
Type of license: Free Open Source
Web Usable: Software you Download and Install
Ease of Use: Moderate
TaDiRAH Goals: Analysis
TaDiRAH Methods: Discovering Relational Analysis

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Amy Dyrbye

PAIR also appears in Project Bamboo's DiRT, a registry of digital tools suitable for academic research. DiRT contains a wide range of tools and software searchable by task, such as annotation, content management, collaborative research, or authoring. It is an excellent resource for Digital Humanists seeking the right tool for the task at hand.

View PAIR in DiRT:

http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/resources/pair-pairwise-alignment-intertextual-relations

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http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/

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