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The URICA! II interactive collation system

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URICA! II is an interactive collation system for the Apple Macintosh family of personal computers. It is designed to facilitate the collation of texts for the purpose of determining textual variants. The URICA! II system provides several utilities which support the collation and conflation of texts. The collation utilities allow a user to compare interactively two text files and record their differences in a variant data file. If desired, the computer can resolve simple variants automatically, involving the user only to resolve the more difficult variants. The conflation utility combines the variant data files from multiple collations into a single file which lists all of the textual variants, keyed against a common master text.

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Michael L. Hilton is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of South Carolina. His research interests include the design of computer hardware, speech processing, and stylometric analysis of literary texts. An earlier version of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computers and the Humanities.

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Hilton, M.L. The URICA! II interactive collation system. Comput Hum 26, 139–144 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00116349

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