Numerals in authorial Turkish-language texts and the stylometric analysis

Abstract

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.

Stylometry and Numerals Usage: Benford’s Law and Beyond

“…Our analysis of the numerals occurring in the texts shows that not only for a random combination of texts, but also for coherent texts, for which the conditions of Hill's theorem [4] are not fulfilled, the frequency distribution of the first significant digits is similar to Benford's one, but the quota of the digit 1 significantly exceeds the Benfordian 30 percent; the occurrence of subsequent digits usually decreases gradually. This is found directly for texts in Russian [18,21], Czech [34], Lithuanian [45], English [21,33], and Turkish [46] languages. Based on the frequency distributions of numerals in the works by Ilf and Petrov included in their 5-volume collection of works [44], we performed clustering and built a dendrogram (Figure 14).…”

Розрахункові Формули Визначення Швидкості Вивантаження Живців Енергетичної Верби З Точки Зору Гідродинамічних Багатофазних Систем

“…І., Жукова І. А., Зенкова Р. Л., Квапіла Р., Кегліна Б. Г., Клейна Г. К., Ковальова Н. І., Котова В. Л., Кунакова B.C., Локтіонової О. Г., Мурашова А. А., Нагорського І. С., Нічборса Б., Павленко Я., Пепчука А. П., Романова А. Н., Семенова В. Ф., Соколовського В. В., Степуки Л. Я., Трубіцина М. Н., Третьякова Г. М., Ульянова С. В., Ушакова Л. С., Франчука В. П., Швоглера M., Шелла Д., Яцуна С. Ф. та інших. В їх роботах розглянуті основні характеристики та фізико-механічні властивості сипких матеріалів, що в тій чи іншій мірі впливають на процес склепоутворення, відображені загальні напрямки досліджень в галузі безперебійного функціонування бункерних пристроїв і вдосконалення склепоруйнуючого обладнання для сипких вантажів з широким спектром фізикомеханічних властивостей [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18].…”