Versification and authorship attribution. A pilot study on Czech, German, Spanish, and English poetry

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Versification and authorship attribution. A pilot study on Czech, German, Spanish, and English poetry

Original language description

This article describes pilot experiments performed as one part of a long-term project examining the possibilities for using versification analysis to determine the authorships of poetic texts. Since we are addressing this article to both stylometry experts and experts in the study of verse, we first introduce in detail the common classifiers used in contemporary stylometry (Burrows' Delta, Argamon's Quadratic Delta, Smith-Aldridge's Cosine Delta, and the Support Vector Machine) and explain how they work via graphic examples. We then provide an evaluation of these classifiers' performance when used with the versification features found in Czech, German, Spanish, and English poetry. We conclude that versification is a reasonable stylometric marker, the strength of which is comparable to the other markers traditionally used in stylometry (such as the frequencies of the most frequent words and the frequencies of the most frequent character n-grams).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-01723S" target="_blank" >GA17-01723S: Stylometric Analysis of Poetic Texts</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studia Metrica et Poetica

ISSN

2346-6901

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Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

EE - ESTONIA

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

29-54

UT code for WoS article

000457040500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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