3 papers
cs.CL2024
Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment
Ben Nagy, Artjoms Šeļa, Mirella De Sisto +1
All poetic forms come from somewhere. Prosodic templates can be copied for generations, altered by individuals, imported from foreign traditions, or fundamentally changed under the…
cs.CL2024
(Not) Understanding Latin Poetic Style with Deep Learning
Ben Nagy
This article summarizes some mostly unsuccessful attempts to understand authorial style by examining the attention of various neural networks (LSTMs and CNNs) trained on a corpus o…
cs.CL2023
From stage to page: language independent bootstrap measures of distinctiveness in fictional speech
Artjoms Šeļa, Ben Nagy, Joanna Byszuk +3
Stylometry is mostly applied to authorial style. Recently, researchers have begun investigating the style of characters, finding that the variation remains within authorial bounds.…