Automatic detection of reuses and citations in literary texts

For more than forty years now, modern theories of literature (Compagnon,1979) insist on the role of paraphrases, rewritings, citations, reciprocal and mutual contributions of any kinds. The notions of, transtextuality, hypertextuality/hypotextuality, were in the seventies and eighties to approach these phenomena. The analysis of these references is of particular interest in evaluating distance that the creator voluntarily introduces with his/her masters. is collaborative project that makes computer scientists from the Pierre and Marie Curie (LIP6-UPMC) collaborate with the literary of Paris-Sorbonne University with the aim to develop efficient tools for studies that take advantage of modern computer science techniques. In context, we have developed a piece of software that automatically detects explores networks of textual reuses in classical literature. This paper the principles on which is based this program, the significant that have already been obtained and the perspectives for the near.