On 1 Jul 2011, at 5:29 pm, Peter Alcibiades wrote: > I do think its possible, and has actually been done successfully. The Bible > is a difficult case since we don't have value free assessments of > authorship. Consequently it is reasonable to argue that what the programs > do is successfully implement the prejudices of their authors. > > However, when we apply this to Dickens, and then ask whether the various > completions of Edwin Drood were completed by him, and we apply it to Jane > Austen and ask whether the software shows the same person to have written > the works of Austen and Fanny Burney, we are dealing with definitely known > authorship, so we can assume that if the algorithms discriminate correctly > in these cases they will probably work on other material where authorship is > unknown. > > The case which I'm looking to apply this to is a bit more like the literary > case. There a number of texts of which the authorship is definitely known > and not subject to dispute. There is then one text whose authorship is > unknown. The question is whether it is probably by one of the known > authors
The International Association of Forensic Linguistics <http://www.iafl.org> do stuff on disputed authorship. I recall there was a summer school a couple of years back that had someone on computer assisted authorship analysis. Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partnership i-psych.co.uk _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
