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	Stylometry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stylometry is the application of the study of linguistic style, usually to written language.
		Stylometry is often used to attribute authorship to anonymous or disputed documents.
		An early example is Lorenzo Valla's 1439 proof that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery, an argument based partly on a comparison of the Latin with that used in authentic 4th Century documents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stylometry (524 words)

	The State of Authorship Attribution Studies: (1) The History and the Scope; (2) The Problems -- Towards Credibility and ...
		Stylometry - the statistical analysis of literary style - complements traditional literary scholarship since it offers a means of capturing the often elusive character of an author's style by quantifying some of its features.
		The origins of stylometry may be traced back to the work of Mendenhall (1887) on word-lengths and the idea of counting features of a text was extended by Yule (1938) to include sentence-lengths.
		Stylometry is essentially a case of pattern recognition.
	www.cs.queensu.ca /achallc97/papers/s004.html (3350 words)

	The College of New Jersey
		Stylometry is the statistical analysis of literary style.
		Using math and computer software, stylometry tracks non-contextual function words to characterize an author’s stylometric "signature." These non-contextual words - prepositions, conjunctions, articles and certain verbs and adverbs, are words that are used unconsciously by a writer.
		In addition to being widely published in the stylometry field, he is the secretary of the International Association of Linguistic Computing.
	pio.intrasun.tcnj.edu /2001/stevencrane.html (495 words)

	Zodiackiller.com Message Board
		Stylometry, BTW, was used in the case against Kacynski as the Unabomber.
		In other words, when stylometry is used to identify authorship of novels or formal written works, I would think that comparison would be done through use of other "known" formal and/or similar works of the author or authors attempting to be identified.
		Fitzgerald informed me bluntly that stylometry was not used in the document comparison, nor was it used by the defense in its failed attempt to refute the prosecution's analysis.
	www.zodiackiller.com /mba/zl/473.html (6012 words)

	fletchorton
		STYLOMETRY IS DEFINED as the technique of making a statistical analysis of some characteristics of literary style.
		On the other hand, the practitioner of stylometry may fail to understand fully important textual aspects of the authorship problem that seriously affect the assumptions of the statistical study.
		In choosing to use stylometry to approach a problem, the researcher faces two fundamental choices: what features to count or measure in the texts, and what statistical techniques are most appropriate to evaluate the significance of this data.
	www.geocities.com /katacheson/fletcherhorton.html (8423 words)

	Plato's middle dialogues (about stylometry)
		Or it must find a way, other that stylometry, to isolate parts of dialogues supposed to be from different periods, and large enough for statistical data to still be meaningfull.
		It is no chance that stylometry was "successfull" (by that I don't mean I agree with its results, but that it found wide acceptance) with Plato, and not with Aristotle.
		Besides, stylometry proves nothing with regard to absolute chronology, only that such dialogue might be "prior to" or "later than" another, not saying by how many years.
	plato-dialogues.org /email/951025_1.htm (1091 words)

	Transblawg: Article on stylometry
		Stylometry is ‘the science of measuring literary style’.
		At first glance, it might appear that the way to pinpoint a writer’s style is to study the rarest, most striking features of his or her writing.
		This particular study was done in the early 1960s, and stylometry has greatly developed since then.
	www.margaret-marks.com /Transblawg/archives/000582.html (295 words)

	SRB Review 10(3)
		Stylometry employs the procedures of descriptive statistics to quantify -- or systematise and formalise -- the irreducible invariant traits from the data under analysis.
		From this quantified data, stylometry crucially moves into the realm of inferential statistics by making predictions and testing hypotheses -- not least those concerning who is the author of an anonymous text.
		She emphasises that the aims of literary theory and stylometry are distinct.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/srb/foresem.html (5573 words)

	The Chronicle: 6/9/2006: The Style of Numbers Behind a Number of Styles
		The analysis of authorial style is more straightforward in literature, and that's where the field of "stylometry" had its first notable successes.
		His guiding assumption was that, over time, any one of those numerical attributes should evolve in a regular manner, so that given several works with known dates, works whose dates were in question could be dated by seeing where their numbers best fit among those of the known works.
		Through Vitanyi's work, it is now possible, by using only the digital representation of a work, to make sense of a question like, "Is the painting of Rothko more like the music of Phillip Glass or the writing of Samuel Beckett?" For him, the medium no longer matters, just the message.
	chronicle.com /temp/reprint.php?id=4fvlt82gn640d1rp48srbpjsvlzhmyrs (2006 words)

	Paper: M.B. Malyutov :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although the pioneering paper based on word length histograms appeared at the very end of the nineteenth century, the resolution power of this and other stylometry approaches is yet to be studied both theoretically and on case studies such that additional information can assist nding the correct attribution.
		Finally, a reliable stylometry analysis should take into account all available information about a disputed work, say time of its preparation, and thus teams of classi ers should consist of specialists in di erent elds, certainly including literary experts.
		Various stylometry and other tests point to the same person, although much more careful testing is needed.
	computing.breinestorm.net /marlowe+shakespeare+anagrams+authorship+rst (583 words)

	Bookish math: statistical tests are unraveling knotty literary mysteries - stylometry Science News - FindArticles
		Bookish math: statistical tests are unraveling knotty literary mysteries - stylometry
		What's more, the tremendous growth of computer power and electronic archives of literary texts is allowing stylometrists to carry out mathematical analyses on a scale previously unimaginable.
		"Stylometry has a tremendous untapped potential," says Bernard Frischer, a classicist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_25-26_164/ai_112411350 (451 words)

	Citations: The evolution of stylometry in humanities scholarship - Holmes (ResearchIndex)
		Often, these methods are not automatic and require some human intervention which makes the computational analysis of a large number of large texts almost impossible.
		A powerful criterion of stylometry is the richness or diversity of an author s vocabulary.
		Zipf observed the number of words ff(f) which occure exactly f times is given by ff(f) f fl ; where fl 2 [Zip32a] He conjectured that the parameter fl depends on the age and intelligence of....
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/1529833/0 (578 words)

	sci_news
		issue on stylometry-the science of measuring literary style.
		There will always be some authorship questions that stylometry can't touch.
		Holmes, D.I. Stylometry and the Civil War: The case of the Pickett
	www.davegentile.com /synoptics/sci_news.html (2243 words)

	Bookish Math: Science News Online, Dec. 27, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Holmes, D.I. Stylometry and the Civil War: The case of the Pickett letters.
		A widow and her soldier: Stylometry and the American Civil War.
		Neural computation in stylometry I: An application to the works of Shakespeare and Marlowe.
	www.sciencenews.org /articles/20031227/bob8ref.asp (220 words)

	Language Log: The Agatha Christie Code: Stylometry, serotonin and the oscillation overthruster
		Agatha Christie, who died in 1976, has been in the news a lot lately.
		To do this she has also compared Christie’s writing to that of Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Hound of the Baskervilles.
		This sounds like a plausible project in stylometry, but there's nothing about it yet in any of Dr. Danielsson's works that Google or Google Scholar can find.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002728.html (1020 words)

	tingilinde: stylometry - the ultimate who done it
		They have started applying these tools to texts from a wide range of literary genres and time periods, including the Federalist Papers, Civil War letters, and Shakespeare's plays.
		The December 20, 2003 issue of Science News has a well done and accessible piece on modern stylometry.
		what characteristics are used in stylometry to determine authorship of music
	tingilinde.typepad.com /starstuff/2003/12/stylometry_the_.html (420 words)

	Towards a text benchmark suite
		Project Gutenberg and the Oxford Text Archive, stylometry currently lacks an equivalent set of accepted test problems.
		Despite its deficiencies, it does present a broader variety of test problems than other workers in stylometry and allied fields have previously used.
		An electronic text of the entire Federalist papers was obtained by anonymous ftp from Project Gutenberg at GUTNBERG@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu For checking purposes the Dent Everyman edition was used (Hamilton et al., 1992 [1788]).
	www.ach.org /abstracts/1997/p026.html (2213 words)

	ResourceShelf » All About Stylometry
		Bookish Math: Statistical tests are unraveling knotty literary mysteries
		From the article, “Stylometry is now entering a golden era.
		In the past 15 years, researchers have developed an arsenal of mathematical tools, from statistical tests to artificial intelligence techniques, for use in determining authorship.
	www.resourceshelf.com /2004/01/24/all-about-stylometry (115 words)

	ISE Links Database - ISE Annex - Keyword fletcher
		The Effectiveness of the Stylometry of Function Words in Discriminating between Shakespeare and Fletcher
		Horton, Thomas B. "The Effectiveness of the Stylometry of Function Words in Discriminating between Shakespeare and Fletcher." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies.
		Horton investigates stylometry, a new avenue for literary research involving computing:
	ise.uvic.ca /Annex/links/keyword/fletcher.html (168 words)

	Stylometry Study and Call for Texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Stylometry is the measurement of an author’s style of writing in a text.
		I am currently carrying out a study to examine the following questions:
		If you have any further queries about the use to which the texts may be put or any further enquiries about the study please do not hesitate to contact me.
	www.psy.dmu.ac.uk /tim/personal/call_for_texts_explanation.html (624 words)

	Scholars Calls It For Henry!
		I was interested in the remarks your new book got in yesterday's New York Times, especially in that they centered about Henry Livingston and Clement Moore.
		The best statistics scientist in attribution is this David I. Holmes; I think he's working at the College of New Jersey.
		He published an article, "The Evolution of Stylometry in Humanities Scholarship," also in Lit and Ling Comp 13.3 (1998): 111-17.
	www.iment.com /maida/familytree/henry/xmas/scholars.htm (9113 words)

	Language Log: The shadow of stylometry
		Margaret Marks at Transblawg (here and here) and The Discouraging Word have commented insightfully on an article at Science News Online about advances in stylometry.
		In this connection, I think we need to consider carefully the consequences for living writers of turnkey software for statistical stylistics that they can apply to their own digital archives.
		Posted by Mark Liberman at January 18, 2004 08:19 PM
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000361.html (1152 words)

	LINGUIST List 15.252: Stylometry/Electronic Text; Field Equipment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Dear all, I would like to receive any information concerning stylometric researches in the field of electronic texts.
		Thank you in advance Mila Popova P.S. If you have additional data on stylometry, i will be grateful if you send it to me. Subject-Language: English;French; Code: FRN
		Message 2: Another question about field recording equipment
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/15/15-252.html (323 words)

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