How to write a comparative analysis?

Hello,

My job is writing comparative analysis of some papers. I'd like to
know if some software can help me. What I'm doing now is looking forsimilarities and differences in text. Once texts has a common idea, I'd like to know for example if some common o unique keywords exists in the text and so on.

I'd appreciate any advice, thank you, Jim!

I'd suggest reading the papers. (yeah, old school, I know.)

Mayb esome anti-plagiarism software would do the trick, to point up any really strong similarities between the papers.

welcome to the cellar, jim. Are you here for the free Whale Penis?

Yeah Hi, Jim. This a new job or just looking for a way to make it faster/easier?

The tools I know are diff and grep.

They are probably not what you are looking for.

Try Compare Suite, it's has a function that generate comparative report as for single files as for whole folders.

I'm using it in the following way - compare two documents (if they has a common ancestor), then generate comparative report and use some ideas or citing from it to write comparative analysis.

As for comparing absolutely different files, then it will not do a trick yet. But I've contacted AKS developers and they said that new release of Compare Suite will have a feature for my needs, it will be able to compare two documents by keywords, so I'll be able to learn what keywords are common and what are unique. I've tried this in Compare Suite ONLINE -- it's some on-line representation of future release and it seems to work as advertised.

Think that it's a good tool that can help in writing comparative analysis.

P.S. Compare Suite URL: http://www.comparesuite.com

Let me know if I can help about ideas on writing comparative report.

Dennis, [email]dencaffer@hotmail.com[/email]

It was Dennis's opinion. He is a friend of mine and work as a IT consultant, he is always glad to help with such a questions. Thanks to Dennis! I'll try what he suggests!

Thankyou for both asking and answering a question that had never perviously crossed my mind. I work with some guys that write software designed to analyse in various ways (a tangent of much AI research) human language. When someone write a piece of software that can write an accurate and comprehensive analysis of two texts I'll eat my birkenstocks.

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I took a bit of a look at the site, I actually does seem like nothing more than a front end for diff and couple of little perl scripts.

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Wow. I hadn't realized that marketers had so far yet to go nor so much yet to learn.

Well, I'm not so optimistic about software that can write an accurate and comprehensive analysis of two texts, but some tools that can really help me with this ... hm .. I think I can find something.
Compare Suite seems to be interest and I'll keep an eye on what those guys will do, once some useful solutions will appear, I'll let
everybody around here know.