Language chunking, data sparseness, and the value of a long marker list: explorations with word n-grams and authorial attribution

Antonia, Alexis; Craig, Hugh; Elliott, Jack

doi:10.1093/llc/fqt028

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“…Zeta was developed by Burrows (2007) and has been used in a range of investigations comparing authorial styles for attribution (e.g. Antonia et al, 2014), as well to investigate chronological style changes in the work of a single author, such as Hoover’s study of Henry James (Hoover, 2007). In the present study, zeta is used to confirm the temporal groupings suggested by the exploratory results obtained from the PCA and cluster analyses.…”

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Style and chronology: A stylometric investigation of Aphra Behn’s dramatic style and the dating of The Young King

Evans

2018

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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Aphra Behn’s dramatic outputs are recognized for their diversity and responsiveness to trends in Restoration drama. A stylometric approach is used to investigate the linguistic dimension of Behn’s dramatic style, with a particular focus on evidence of chronological change. Quantitative analysis (most frequent words, function words, zeta) suggests that Behn’s drama falls into three periods. A qualitative analysis indicates that the periodization may reflect a change in the construction of Behn’s dramatic worlds, from an abstract psychological focus to a more grounded, interactive and social representation. The study considers the problematic dating of Behn’s tragi-comedy The Young King. Although critical opinion holds that this play was the first that Behn wrote (i.e. pre-1670), the stylometric analysis suggests that Behn heavily revised, or, indeed, penned, the drama in the mid-to-late 1670s, mid-way through her writing career. The paper demonstrates the potential for stylochronometric techniques to complement other linguistic approaches to style, and enhance our understanding of how literary writing evolves.

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Style and chronology: A stylometric investigation of Aphra Behn’s dramatic style and the dating of The Young King

Evans

2018

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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“…1) each MELD text attests to a unique set of character n-grams 2) such unique sets are more similar among texts that share a similar language variant The use of words or characters as the basis of n-grams in authorship attribution has been discussed widely in earlier literature, (see e.g. [Hoover 2002[Hoover , 2003[Hoover , 2012, [Koppel et al, 2009], [Stamatatos, 2009], [Eder, 2011], and[Alexis et al, 2014]). The use of character n-grams means that the units of analysis have very little to do with the linguistic units of syllables, morphemes, and words ( [Eder 2015]), i.e.…”

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Stylo visualisations of Middle English documents

Mäkinen

2020

Journal of Data Mining &Amp; Digital Humanities

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International audience Automated approaches to identifying authorship of a text have become commonplace in the stylometric studies. The current article applies an unsupervised stylometric approach on Middle English documents using the script Stylo in R, in an attempt to distinguish between texts from different dialectal areas. The approach is based on the distribution of character 3-grams generated from the texts of the corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD). The article adopts the middle ground in the study of Middle English spelling variation, between the concept of relational linguistic space and the real linguistic continuum of medieval England. Stylo can distinguish between Middle English dialects by using the less frequent character 3-grams.

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“…Traditional authorship studies use word-form and part-of-speech n-grams (Stamatatos, 2009;Grieve, 2007, for a range of feature types). While these features have been shown to be effective, there is a constant trade-off required between several factors (Antonia et al, 2013). Shorter n-grams (e.g.…”

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Profile-based authorship analysis

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Digital Scholarship Humanities

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This article presents a profile-based authorship analysis method which first categorizes texts according to social and conceptual characteristics of their author (e.g. Sex and Political Ideology) and then combines these profiles for two authorship analysis tasks: (1) determining shared authorship of pairs of texts without a set of candidate authors and (2) clustering texts according to characteristics of their authors in order to provide an analysis of the types of individuals represented in the data set. The first task outperforms Burrows' Delta by a wide margin on short texts and a small margin on long texts. The second task has no such benchmark with existing methods. The data set for evaluating the method consists of speeches from the US House and Senate from 1995 to 2013. This data set contains both a large number of texts (42,000 in the test sets) and a large number of speakers (over 800). The article shows that this approach to authorship analysis is more accurate than existing approaches given a data set with hundreds of authors. Further, this profile-based method makes new types of analysis possible by looking at types of individuals as well as at specific individuals.

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Language chunking, data sparseness, and the value of a long marker list: explorations with word n-grams and authorial attribution

Cited by 31 publications

References 13 publications

Style and chronology: A stylometric investigation of Aphra Behn’s dramatic style and the dating of The Young King

Style and chronology: A stylometric investigation of Aphra Behn’s dramatic style and the dating of The Young King

Stylo visualisations of Middle English documents

Profile-based authorship analysis

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