Abstract:This article investigates the stylometric usefulness of morphosyntactic annotation. Focusing on the style of literary texts, it argues that including morphosyntactic annotation in analyses of style has at least two important advantages: (1) maintaining a topic agnostic approach and (2) providing input variables that are interpretable in traditional grammatical terms. This study demonstrates how widely available Universal Dependency parsers can generate useful morphological and syntactic data for texts in a ran… Show more
“…The paper "Morphosyntactic Annotation in Literary Stylometry" by Gorman [3] provides a sophisticated stylometric analysis of texts. This computational analysis uses morphosyntactic annotations, such as the frequency of various pronouns, verbal cases, and the ordering of various elements of the sentence.…”
“…The paper "Morphosyntactic Annotation in Literary Stylometry" by Gorman [3] provides a sophisticated stylometric analysis of texts. This computational analysis uses morphosyntactic annotations, such as the frequency of various pronouns, verbal cases, and the ordering of various elements of the sentence.…”
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