Textstitched
Textstitched is a term used in digital text processing to describe the process and systems for stitching together disparate text fragments into coherent, continuous documents while preserving source metadata and provenance. It can refer to methodological approaches as well as software implementations that merge, align, and reconcile textual fragments from multiple sources.
Methodology: Text stitching relies on alignment of fragments, deduplication, normalization, and conflict resolution. It uses metadata
Origins and scope: The concept arose with growing multi-source corpora, digital libraries, and collaborative editing environments.
Applications: It is used to reconstruct complete documents from fragmentary records, compile consolidated corpora for linguistic
Limitations and critique: Critics note risks of fabricating continuity, introducing errors, or obscuring source disagreements. Quality
See also: text mining, data fusion, document reconstruction, provenance, version control for text.