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Pair-Level Essay-Scale Republication and Reuse from Fragmented Historical Text Reuse: A Workflow Study on Eighteenth-Century Books and Newspapers

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 27, 2026 · UTC

This paper addresses the recovery of essay-scale republication and reuse from fragmented text-reuse evidence, a setting whose central challenge is pair-level evidence consolidation and not fragment retrieval alone. The study focuses on a candidate set centered on essays by eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher David Hume, spanning books from ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) and historical newspapers. Because the input consists of fragmented reuse hits instead of clean document pairs, and positive coverage is inherently incomplete, we formulate the task as pair-level evidence cons

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