Authorial Studies using Ranked Lexical Features
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چکیده
The purpose of this article is to propose a tool for measuring distances between different styles of one or more authors. The main study is focused on measuring and visualizing distances in a space induced by ranked lexical features. We investigate the case of Vladimir Nabokov, a bilingual Russian English language author.
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