A novel method of stylometry based on the statistic of numerals

Zenkov, A. V.

doi:10.20537/2076-7633-2017-9-5-837-850

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“…We will restrict ourselves to one example that is often used as a touchstone to test the stylometric techniques. More examples can be found in [21,33,34].…”

Section: First Significant Digits and Texts Authorship Attributionmentioning

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Stylometry and Numerals Usage: Benford’s Law and Beyond

Zenkov

2021

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We suggest two approaches to the statistical analysis of texts, both based on the study of numerals occurrence in literary texts. The first approach is related to Benford’s Law and the analysis of the frequency distribution of various leading digits of numerals contained in the text. In coherent literary texts, the share of the leading digit 1 is even larger than prescribed by Benford’s Law and can reach 50 percent. The frequencies of occurrence of the digit 1, as well as, to a lesser extent, the digits 2 and 3, are usually a characteristic the author’s style feature, manifested in all (sufficiently long) literary texts of any author. This approach is convenient for testing whether a group of texts has common authorship: the latter is dubious if the frequency distributions are sufficiently different. The second approach is the extension of the first one and requires the study of the frequency distribution of numerals themselves (not their leading digits). The approach yields non-trivial information about the author, stylistic and genre peculiarities of the texts and is suited for the advanced stylometric analysis. The proposed approaches are illustrated by examples of computer analysis of the literary texts in English and Russian.

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“…We will restrict ourselves to one example that is often used as a touchstone to test the stylometric techniques. More examples can be found in [21,33,34].…”

Section: First Significant Digits and Texts Authorship Attributionmentioning

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Stylometry and Numerals Usage: Benford’s Law and Beyond

Zenkov

2021

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“…This is not to say that it does not have practical engagement or purposes -in fact, the trends in higher education are exactly towards greater practical application. [9][10][11] Common characteristics. Higher education exemplifies the relationship between education and development.…”

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“…In terms of its constitutive role, higher education historically has been strongly associated with the designs of the nation-state. In the period after the World War II in which many countries in Africa and Asia gained independence, national universities were established not only to fill the vacuum in human resources left by the departing powers, and to forge cultural and political unity and strength, but also as a marker of nationhood [10].…”

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Education and Sustainable development: interplay and implications

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Universities and other Higher education institutions are more than ever on the cusp of disruptive and radical changes while struggling to keep their traditional remit from falling entirely into the hands of managers and accountants. This paper examines the role of (higher) education in achieving sustainable development goals and addresses the important changes facing higher education from multiple perspectives and divergent cultural viewpoints.

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“…We have proposed the idea of studying numerals found in the text as a means of characterizing the author's style [2][3][4][5][6]. The analysis of numerals has many advantages.…”

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Numerals in authorial Turkish-language texts and the stylometric analysis

Zenkov

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Two approaches to the statistical analysis of texts are suggested, both based on the study of numerals occurrence in coherent texts. The first approach is related to the study of the frequency distribution of various leading digits of numerals occurring in the text. These frequencies are unequal: the digit 1 is strongly dominating; usually, the incidence of subsequent digits is monotonically decreasing. The frequencies of occurrence of the digit 1, as well as, to a lesser extent, the digits 2 and 3, are usually a characteristic author’s style feature, manifested in all (sufficiently long) texts of any author. This approach is convenient for testing whether a group of texts has common authorship: the latter is dubious if the frequency distributions are sufficiently different. The second approach is the extension of the first one and requires the study of the frequency distribution of numerals themselves (not their leading digits). The approach yields non-trivial information about the author, stylistic and genre peculiarities of the texts and is suited for the advanced discourse analysis. This paper deals with the application of the second approach to the literary texts in Turkish. We have analysed almost the whole corpus of works by are illustrated by examples of computer analysis of the literary texts by O. Pamuk and Y. Kemal – two of Turkey’s most prominent novelists. The hierarchical cluster analysis based on the occurrence of numerals in the texts by Pamuk and Kemal shows the author, genre, and chronology differences of numerals usage in the literary texts of these authors.

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A novel method of stylometry based on the statistic of numerals

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Stylometry and Numerals Usage: Benford’s Law and Beyond

Stylometry and Numerals Usage: Benford’s Law and Beyond

Education and Sustainable development: interplay and implications

Numerals in authorial Turkish-language texts and the stylometric analysis

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