Stylistic palimpsests: Computational stylistic perspectives on precursory authorship in Aphra Behn’s drama

Exploiting Stylistic Idiosyncrasies for Authorship Attribution

Introduction Early researchers in authorship attribution used a variety of statistical methods to identify stylistic discriminators – characteristics which remain approximately invariant within the works of a given author but which tend to vary from author to author (Holmes 1998, McEnery & Oakes 2000). In recent years machine learning methods have been applied to authorship attribution. A few e...

Chasing the Ghosts of Ibsen: A computational stylistic analysis of drama in translation

Research into the stylistic properties of translations is an issue which has received some attention in computational stylistics. Previous work by Rybicki (2006) on the distinguishing of character idiolects in the work of Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz and two corresponding English translations using Burrow’s Delta method concluded that idiolectal differences could be observed in the source t...

Stylistic Experiments in Informationretrieval

A discussion on various experiments to utilize stylistic variation among texts for information retrieval purposes. 1. Stylistics Texts vary in many ways. Authors make choices when they write a text: they decide how to organize the material they have planned to introduce; they make choices between synonyms and syntactic constructions; they choose an intended audience for the text. Authors will m...

Subjectivity in Stylistic Assessment

The Importance of Subjectivity in Computational Stylistic Assessment

Computational processes with the ability to evaluate of the style of text have a variety of applications, including the detection of plagiarism, forensic linguistics, and authorship determination. This research is motivated by the need to help users of collaborative writing environments maintain a consistent style in their documents. While the matter of whether the style of a text is “correct” ...