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The need to compare texts quantitatively arises in many different disciplines of scientific research. In each particular case, the use of quantitative methods is motivated by different requirements and often very divergent objectives (comparative stylometric analyses of texts written by different authors, typologies of individual responses to a single open question, information retrieval, etc.).
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Lebart, L., Salem, A., Berry, L. (1998). The Units of Textual Statistics. In: Exploring Textual Data. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1525-6_3
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