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On an Unknown Ancestor of Burrows' Delta Measure

2020/12/09 by Petr Plecháč, Petr Plechac, Plechac, Petr
Computer Science · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Ancestor #Archaeology #Artificial intelligence #Attribution #Authorship Attribution and Profiling #Authorship attribution #Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection #Biology #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Computer science #Data mining #Delta #Evolutionary biology #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Geography #Measure (data warehouse) #Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research #Physics #Psychology #Social psychology #cs.CL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2012.04796

published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · To appear in: Interférences litteraires/literaire interferenties; forthcoming special issue on "Literature and/as (the) Digital"

arxiv created 2020/12/09 · openalex publication_date 2020/12/09 · arxiv updated 2020/12/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This article points out some surprising similarities between a 1944 study by Georgy Udny Yule and modern approaches to authorship attribution.

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