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The Quantification Of A Forced Convergence Of Similar Texts: The 1870 And The 1875 Okmulgee Constitution And Levenshtein’S Edit Distance Metric - Website Announcement & Link, Charles D. Bernholz

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Government Documents and the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries are pleased to announce the release of a World Wide Web site, entitled The quantification of a forced convergence of similar texts: The 1870 and the 1875 Okmulgee Constitution and Levenshtein’s edit distance metric.

The Okmulgee Constitution, created in the Creek capital of the Indian Territory in December 1870, provided a model for a new full-fledged and federally supported Indian state to replace the Territory. In a previous study, the variants of that document’s text from the official and unofficial record were …