Question: blacklining

[numericlee]

Thanks for the great tool.
Can textacy be used to blackline one string against another?
Is there another NLP tool which does this already?

[bdewilde]

Hi @numericlee , I don't know what "blackline" means, and I wasn't able to figure it out via web search. Could you clarify?

[numericlee]

blacklining compares two versions of the same document. Generally, the second is a modification of the first Blackling expresses the second document as the base document plus a series of insertions,deletions , and moves. This is a common feature in Microsoft Word Base: Through a number of successful wars he expanded the Tsardom into a much larger empire that became a major European power. Revised: Through a number of wildly successful wars, Peter the Great expanded the Tsardom into a larger empire that became a European major power . While it doesnt have to be in this format, something like this Through a number of [added:*wildly]* successful wars [deleted:he][added:Peter the Great] expanded the Tsardom into a [deleted:much] larger empire that became a European [moved:major] power.

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[bdewilde]

Hey @numericlee , sorry to leave you hanging. In short, textacy doesn't have this functionality built-in, but it looks like Python does, more or less, via difflib. I've given some thought for how this could / whether it should fit into textacy, but haven't had time to really work on it. For now, difflib might be enough to get you started.