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title = "The Historian{'}s Fingerprint: A Computational Stylometric Study of the Zuo Commentary and Discourses of the States",
author = "Hua, Wenjie",
editor = "Anderson, Adam and
Gordin, Shai and
Li, Bin and
Liu, Yudong and
Passarotti, Marco C. and
Sprugnoli, Rachele",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing",
month = may,
year = "2025",
address = "The Albuquerque Convention Center, Laguna",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.alp-1.15/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.alp-1.15",
pages = "120--126",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-235-0",
abstract = "Previous studies suggest that authorship can be inferred through stylistic features like func-tion word usage and grammatical patterns, yet such analyses remain limited for Old Chinese texts with disputed authorship. Computational methods enable a more nuanced exploration of these texts. This study applies stylometric anal-ysis to examine the authorship controversy be-tween the Zuo Commentary and the Discourses of the States. Using PoS 4-grams, Kullback-Leibler divergence, and multidimensional scal-ing (MDS), we systematically compare their stylistic profiles. Results show that the Zuo Commentary exhibits high internal consistency, especially in the later eight Dukes chapters, supporting its integration by a single scholarly tradition. In contrast, the Discourses of the States displays greater stylistic diversity, align-ing with the multiple-source compilation the-ory. Further analysis reveals partial stylistic similarities among the Lu, Jin, and Chu-related chapters, suggesting shared influences. These findings provide quantitative support for Tong Shuye{'}s arguments and extend statistical vali-dation of Bernhard Karlgren{'}s assertion on the textual unity of the Zuo Commentary."
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%A Hua, Wenjie
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%Y Gordin, Shai
%Y Li, Bin
%Y Liu, Yudong
%Y Passarotti, Marco C.
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%8 May
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%C The Albuquerque Convention Center, Laguna
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%X Previous studies suggest that authorship can be inferred through stylistic features like func-tion word usage and grammatical patterns, yet such analyses remain limited for Old Chinese texts with disputed authorship. Computational methods enable a more nuanced exploration of these texts. This study applies stylometric anal-ysis to examine the authorship controversy be-tween the Zuo Commentary and the Discourses of the States. Using PoS 4-grams, Kullback-Leibler divergence, and multidimensional scal-ing (MDS), we systematically compare their stylistic profiles. Results show that the Zuo Commentary exhibits high internal consistency, especially in the later eight Dukes chapters, supporting its integration by a single scholarly tradition. In contrast, the Discourses of the States displays greater stylistic diversity, align-ing with the multiple-source compilation the-ory. Further analysis reveals partial stylistic similarities among the Lu, Jin, and Chu-related chapters, suggesting shared influences. These findings provide quantitative support for Tong Shuye’s arguments and extend statistical vali-dation of Bernhard Karlgren’s assertion on the textual unity of the Zuo Commentary.
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%P 120-126
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[The Historian’s Fingerprint: A Computational Stylometric Study of the Zuo Commentary and Discourses of the States](https://aclanthology.org/2025.alp-1.15/) (Hua, ALP 2025)
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