# Reception Reader: Exploring Text Reuse in Early Modern British Publications

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04084 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.04084/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 2 of its 28 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 8 Feb 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [On the Feasibility of Automated Detection of Allusive Text Reuse](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.02973/) (2019)
- [Patterns of Text Reuse in a Scientific Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.2716/) (2014)

## Built on by (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Loci Similes: A Benchmark for Extracting Intertextualities in Latin Literature](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.07533/) (2026)
- [Detecting Latin in Historical Books with Large Language Models: A Multimodal Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.19585/) (2025)
- [Matching Meaning at Scale: Evaluating Semantic Search for 18th-Century Intellectual History through the Case of Locke](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.09236/) (2026)
- [Pair-Level Essay-Scale Republication and Reuse from Fragmented Historical Text Reuse: A Workflow Study on Eighteenth-Century Books and Newspapers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.27343/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The Reception Reader is a web tool for studying text reuse in the Early English Books Online (EEBO-TCP) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) data. Users can: 1) explore a visual overview of the reception of a work, or its incoming connections, across time based on shared text segments, 2) interactively survey the details of connected documents, and 3) examine the context of reused text for "close reading". We show examples of how the tool streamlines research and exploration tasks, and discuss the utility and limitations of the user interface along with its current data sources.