University of Heidelberg

New Functions

• Bigram Expansion: Find quotations of any length
• Paraphrase Detection: Find quotations even if they contain synonyms, differences in spelling, etc.
• Quotation Search: Find quotations through semantic markers, not only through string matching
• QuotationFinder as Database Plugin: Enable users to compare texts from within a database
• Translingual Text Comparison: Find quotations in different languages
• Author Analysis/Authorship Attribution: Calculate measures like sentence length, degree of nestedness, use of function words, etc. to create an author's "profile"
• Popular Phrases Search: Build a ranking of the most frequent phrases used in a text collection

Additional Features

• Comparison with several collections at the same time
• User can choose if punctuation should be considered in the comparison or not
• Better text view display for vocabulary size feature
• Additional functions in the menu: "New Project", "Download Collection", "Export Collection"
• Automatic language recognition
• User can define his own default settings
• User should be allowed to input stop words used for filtering