4 papers
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.…
Some Stylometric Remarks on Ovid's Heroides and the Epistula Sapphus
Ben Nagy
This article aims to contribute to two well-worn areas of debate in classical Latin philology, relating to Ovid's Heroides. The first is the question of the authenticity (and, to a…
Metre as a stylometric feature in Latin hexameter poetry
Benjamin Nagy
This paper demonstrates that metre is a privileged indicator of authorial style in classical Latin hexameter poetry. Using only metrical features, pairwise classification experimen…
Reply to: Large-scale quantitative profiling of the Old English verse tradition
Petr Plecháč, Andrew Cooper, Benjamin Nagy +1
In Nature Human Behaviour 3/2019, an article was published entitled "Large-scale quantitative profiling of the Old English verse tradition" dealing with (besides other things) the…