Methodological observations concerning word rankings and z-score refinements

verfasst von
Hartmut Ilsemann
Abstract

This article evaluates word rankings suggested by Ary L. Goldberger, Albert C. Yang, and C. Peng as a means of establishing the authorship of texts in the light of Delta, developed by John Burrows at about the same time. The tests carried out with high ranking function words and results established with the more modern approaches of Rolling Delta, Rolling Classify, and the General Imposters method give clear evidence that word rankings only return crude and unreliable results that cannot keep up with nontraditional modern methods. Even though the stylistic difference between Marlowe and Shakespeare plays could be stated, word rankings failed to recognize Shakespearean stylistics in The Jew of Malta, Edward II, and Doctor Faustus. It was only through the use of z-scores that a wider vocabulary provided a larger degree of differentiation.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Englisches Seminar
Typ
Artikel
Journal
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
Band
39
Seiten
185-190
Anzahl der Seiten
6
ISSN
2055-7671
Publikationsdatum
04.2024
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Information systems, Sprache und Linguistik, Linguistik und Sprache, Angewandte Informatik
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad079 (Zugang: Geschlossen)