[Corpora-List] minimal changes in a paragraph (based on a corpus it appeared) ... (2nd attempt (after first one was deleted))

[Albretch Mueller]

 Hi Bill et al,
~
> The similarity of paragraphs will hinge upon their argument and logic.
~
 The thing is (of course, as I see it) that texts' paragraphs don't
have an argument on logic defining them. As Paul Grice (very rightly
indeed) pointed out to those trying to reduce text interpretations to
("their") "logic". Also the interpretation of any text (as medium to a
communicative form) will always be intersubjective.
~
> So, by looking for minimal changes and intertextuality, you are looking for
> variables in natural language that mirror those in logic
~
> So: (1) Take the paragraph you want to use and REPLACE all vocabulary words
> with WILDCARDS and search for those strings in a reference corpus;
> (2) You may have difficulty finding a search engine that allows this;
> (3) You will need to break up your search into shorter strings in order to
> prevent the machine from gagging on whole paragraphs, but this will reward
> you by showing up slight variations. (4) Questions of entailment will be
> cross-verifying and will assist in isolating the structure of type of
> logical event involved.
~
 I think the best we could do is try an exhaustive syntactic approach,
but I will read through your approach
~
> ... 'Para por y sobre Luis Quereda'. Published in Spain by University for Granada Press ~
 Is this it?
~
 "http://www.ugr.es/~dmadrid/Publicaciones/Contexto social y
rendimiento_L Quereda.pdf"
~
 thank you
 lbrtchx

On 8/9/11, Bill Louw <louwfirth at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Albretch and all,
>
> The similarity of paragraphs will hinge upon their argument and logic. So,
> by looking for minimal changes and intertextuality, you are looking for
> variables in natural language that mirror those in logic, and that
> Wittgenstein found difficult to isolate in his 1929 article:'Some remarks on
> logical form'.
>
> Your best bet may be to apply the method I have evolved for finding subtext.
> It involves automating Bertrand Russell's assertion that a perfectly logical
> natural language will contain only grammar words and no vocabulary items.
>
> So: (1) Take the paragraph you want to use and REPLACE all vocabulary words
> with WILDCARDS and search for those strings in a reference corpus;
> (2) You may have difficulty finding a search engine that allows this;
> (3) You will need to break up your search into shorter strings in order to
> prevent the machine from gagging on whole paragraphs, but this will reward
> you by showing up slight variations. (4) Questions of entailment will be
> cross-verifying and will assist in isolating the structure of type of
> logical event involved.
>
>
> My method is to be found in an article that appears in a Festschrift for
> Professor Luis Quereda of the University of Granada. Title of collection
> (2010) is 'Para por y sobre Luis Quereda'. Published in Spain by University
> for Granada Press. The article examines subtext in the poetry of William
> Butler Yeats.
>
> best wishes
>
> Bill Louw
> University of Zimbabwe

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