Versification and Authorship Attribution

• Main Author: Plecháč, Petr (auth)
• Other Authors: Šeļa, Artjoms (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Prague Karolinum Press 2021
• Series: Czech Literary Studies
• Subjects: Mathematics & science; Literature & literary studies; contemporary stylometry; stylometry; machine learning; versification; authorship; literary criticism; statistics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The technique known as contemporary stylometry uses different methods, including machine learning, to discover a poem's author based on features like the frequencies of words and character n-grams. However, there is one potential textual fingerprint stylometry tends to ignore: versification, or...