Definitions
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- noun a computer program that looks for text that matches a given text
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With DADS, we no longer rely on text-matching simple keywords, but rather we parse users' queries and then we form database queries which return answers from the structured data in real time.
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Finally, it's easy to imagine that pirates could have the best of both worlds by posting material to other web-hosts that don't have the text-matching in place (that is, every web-host except Scribd, from your local ISP to LiveJournal, Blogger and Wordpress) and then posting files that link to those hosts on Scribd.
Boing Boing 2007
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With DADS, we no longer rely on text-matching simple keywords, but rather we parse users' queries and then we form database queries which return answers from the structured data in real time.
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Scribd -- which came under fire when the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America complained that users had posted copyrighted works without permission there -- has unveiled a text-matching system that allows people who make a legally binding oath that they hold copyrights to works to prevent those works from being posted to Scribd.
Boing Boing 2007
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With DADS, we no longer rely on text-matching simple keywords, but rather we parse users' queries and then we form database queries which return answers from the structured data in real time.
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However "fuzzy" the Scribd text-matching is, it's likely that determined pirates will figure out how to exceed its threshold and get around it.
Boing Boing 2007
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Nature reports that Harold Garner of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has been scouring the medical literature using an automated text-matching software package to catch plagiarized articles.
A rash of scientific plagiarism? josh 2008
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Nature reports that Harold Garner of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has been scouring the medical literature using an automated text-matching software package to catch plagiarized articles.
Archive 2008-10-01 josh 2008
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So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search.
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"Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search."
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