Corpora: Measuring Text Reuse

[Frank Henrik Mueller]

Hello!

The following book is - I think - exactly what you were looking for. It
was also a dissertation project. 'Unfortunately', it seems to be in
German, but it might be possible to contact the author.

It is a linguistic analysis of the way journalists adapt press releases
for their articles.

Bachmann, Cornelia.
Public Relations: Ghostwriting für die Medien.
Bern: Lang, 1997.


Regards, FranK!


Paul Clough wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am a postgraduate working on a project looking at how text from a British
> news agency is being reused by various newspapers. I am interested in
> whether anyone else is working on anything similar or knows any other
> projects dealing with reuse. I am trying to get a grasp on how to actually
> define reuse as not only am I dealing with verbatim copy of text, I am also
> looking at cases where text is paraphrased. Has anyone any ideas or opinions
> on what they consider as reuse of text, or what tools could be used to
> extract reused material?
> 
> Thanks for any comments,
> 
> Paul Clough.
> University of Sheffield.


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