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Stylometry for medieval authorship studies : an application to rhyme words
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Abstract
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| In the digital humanities much research has been done concerning stylometry, the computational study of style. Literary authorship at-tribution, especially, has been a central topic. After a brief introduction, I will discuss the enormous potential of this paradigm for medieval philology, a field that studies so many texts of unknown or disputed origin. At the same time, it will be stressed that stylometrys application to medieval texts is currently not without problems: many attribution techniques are still controversial and do not account for the specific nature of medieval text production. Throughout this paper, I will tentatively apply two well-established attribution techniques (principal components analysis and Burrowss Delta) to a number of case studies in Middle Dutch studies. These analyses shall be restricted to rhyme words, since these words are less likely to have been altered by scribes. |
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English
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Digital philology
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2012
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2162-9544
2162-9552
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DOI
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10.1353/DPH.2012.0002
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Volume/pages
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1
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(2012)
, p. 42-72
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