Adjectives and adverbs as stylometric analysis parameters

Abstract The present study considers the role of adjectives and adverbs in stylometric analysis authorship attribution. Adjectives allow both for variations placement order (adverbs) type (adjectives). This preliminary examines a collection 25 English-language blogs taken from Schler Blog corpus, Project Gutenberg corpus with specific emphasis on 3 works. Within blog corpora, first last 100 lines were extracted purpose analysis. corpora used full. All texts processed part-of-speech tagged using Python NLTK package. classified as sentence-initial, preverbal, interverbal, postverbal, sentence-final, or none-of-the-above. into types according to universal English hierarchy (Cambridge Dictionary Online, 2021; Annear, 1964) manually by one authors. Ambiguous their context. For adverbs, initial samples paired training data attribute final samples. resulted 600 trials under each five experimental conditions. We able an average accuracy 9.7% greater than chance across all Confirmatory experiments are ongoing larger sample blogs. strongly suggests that adverbial is useful novel idiolectal variable attribution (Juola et al., 2021). adjective, differences found adjective author. Percent use varied based upon individual preference subject-matter (e.g. Moby Dick had large number related size color). While highly variable, subject rigid restrictions not violated Stylometric generally involve category preferred Future investigation will focus, likewise, whether variation similarly analyzable adverb.