Keeping a detection logbook

By now, the reader will have realised that multiple detection tasks are needed per work-pair in order to tease out as many text reuse styles from the texts as possible. To help keep track of these experiments, we recommend the creation of a logbook to record each and every task with the respective result-set. We find this helps to avoid duplicating analyses and more easily identify the optimal settings for a particular detection task. An example logbook might look something like this:

WORD-BASED FEATURING

Task N

Preprocessing

Selection

Scoring

Result

1

syn-repl.; lemmatiz.

local-max-feat-freq.; 0.6 feat-dens.

0.5 sim-thresh.

5 reuses

2

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3

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BIGRAM FEATURING

Task N

Preprocessing

Selection

Scoring

Result

1

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2

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TRIGRAM FEATURING

Task N

Preprocessing

Selection

Scoring

Result

1

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2

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