Versification and Authorship Attribution - Petr Plechác

A clever investigation into two unsolved mysteries of poetic authorship.  The technique known as contemporary stylometry uses different methods, including machine learning, to discover a poem’s author based on features like the frequencies of words and character n-grams. However, there is one potential textual fingerprint stylometry tends to ignore: versification, or the very making of language into verse. Using poetic texts in three different languages (Czech, German, and Spanish), Petr Plechác... Zobrazit více