stylometry

http://www.philocomp.net/humanities/signature.htm

The Signature Stylometric System

A User-Friendly System for Textual Analysis

Welcome to the home page of Signature, a program designed to facilitate "stylometric" analysis and comparison of texts, with a particular emphasis on author identification. The collage below on the right illustrates the sorts of task for which Signature can be used: comparing the styles of Jane Austen and other novelists; examining the "authorial signature" of the plays written by (or controversially attributed to) Shakespeare; establishing the provenance of ancient manuscripts such as the shared books of Aristotle's Ethics; identifying the author of the unattributed Federalist Papers; and investigating the relationships between Biblical scriptures (e.g. Did "Luke" write Acts? Did Paul write Hebrews?).

الترجمة بتصرف

البصمة الأسلوبية

نظام سهل الاستعمال لتحليل النصول

مرحبا بكم في صفحة البصمة وهي برنامج صمم ليسهل تحليل ومقارنة أساليب النصوص. مع تركيز على تحديد شخصية صاحب النص العمود الأيمن يبين المهام التي يمكن أن يستعمل لها. ويعتمد عليه في دراسة أساليب عدد من الروائيين ومصداقية عدد من المخطوطات القديمة بما في ذلك مخطوطات الإنجيل.

http://cs.kingsu.ca/~afeaver/computing/student_projects/stylometry/stylometry_report.pdf

Introduction:

Stylometry is the study of linguistic style, this means looking at patterns in language to outline rules or characteristics of the subject of study. Stylometry is often used to determine authorship to anonymous manuscripts, but the principles of Stylometry can also be used in other areas such as the analysis of music. Stylometrists search for a clear measurable attribute that can be used to draw definitive conclusions about an author. It is possible, however, that such a feature does not exist. However, as the search progresses, researchers find statistical attributes and develop tools that, when used in conjunction with each other, allow very strong conclusions to be drawn in authorship disputes.

The basics of stylometry were established by the Polish philosopher Wincenty Lutoslawski in 1890. In the past, this discipline was very limited because humans had to manually perform all of the data analysis on the texts they were studying. With the advent of computers, however, researchers are freed from data analysis roles to focus on the theory underlying the data relationships. Stylometry gained popularity from renaissance drama authorship questions. This interest in determining authorship in renaissance works helped to establish stylometry’s credibility in the area of authorship attributions. A simple concept to begin with in stylometry is the idea of the writer invariant. This is a writing characteristic that belongs to a specific author. The idea is that, the author of a document has features of his or her writing which are consistent across all documents written and that all authors have their own unique invariants. Hence, identification of this attribute can help to determine who wrote a document. It is agreed that these types of traits do exist between authors, but trouble exists in identifying which aspects of the text should or should not contribute to this invariant.

المقدمة

القياس الأسلوبي أو البصمة الأسلوبية هي دراسة الأسلوب اللغوي اي البحث عن الأنماط اللغوية لتحديد القواعد التي تميز خصائص موضوع البحث. وهي تستعمل للتعرف على مؤلفي المخطوطات التي لا يعرف مؤلفوها. ولكن مبادئها تستعمل في مجالات أخرى كتحليل الموسيقى. ويبحث أخصائيو البصمة عن خصائص واضحة قابلة للقياس تقود إلى نتائج محددة تتعلق بالمؤلف. ولكن يبقى من الممكن عدم توفر مثل هذه الخصائص. وعلى أي حال، فإنه مع تقدم وسائل البحث فإن الباحثين يجدون مزايا إحصائية ويستحدثون أدوات من شأن استعمالها مجتمعة أن يقود إلى نتائج قوية في الخلافات المتعلقة بحق التأليف.