Comparing two book chapters (text files)

[andrew cooke]

On Feb 4, 10:20 pm, Nick Matzke <mat... at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> So I have an interesting challenge.  I want to compare two book
> chapters, which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage
> similarity and (b) what has changed.

no idea if it will help, but i found this yesterday - http://www.nltk.org/

it's a python toolkit for natural language processing.  there's a book
at http://www.nltk.org/book with much more info.

andrew