A Stylometry Toolkit for Latin Literature

Thomas J. Bolt, Jeffrey H. Flynt, Pramit Chaudhuri, Joseph P. Dexter


Abstract
Computational stylometry has become an increasingly important aspect of literary criticism, but many humanists lack the technical expertise or language-specific NLP resources required to exploit computational methods. We demonstrate a stylometry toolkit for analysis of Latin literary texts, which is freely available at www.qcrit.org/stylometry. Our toolkit generates data for a diverse range of literary features and has an intuitive point-and-click interface. The features included have proven effective for multiple literary studies and are calculated using custom heuristics without the need for syntactic parsing. As such, the toolkit models one approach to the user-friendly generation of stylometric data, which could be extended to other premodern and non-English languages underserved by standard NLP resources.
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D19-3035
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations
Month:
November
Year:
2019
Address:
Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Sebastian Padó, Ruihong Huang
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EMNLP | IJCNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
205–210
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D19-3035
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-3035
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Thomas J. Bolt, Jeffrey H. Flynt, Pramit Chaudhuri, and Joseph P. Dexter. 2019. A Stylometry Toolkit for Latin Literature. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations, pages 205–210, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Stylometry Toolkit for Latin Literature (Bolt et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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