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John Burrows
Researcher at University of Newcastle
Publications - 26
Citations - 1220
John Burrows is an academic researcher from University of Newcastle. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stylometry & Randomness. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 26 publications receiving 1118 citations.
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‘Delta’: a Measure of Stylistic Difference and a Guide to Likely Authorship
TL;DR: A new way of using the relative frequencies of the very common words for comparing written texts and testing their likely authorship, which offers a simple but comparatively accurate addition to current methods of distinguishing the most likely author of texts exceeding about 1,500 words in length.
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Word-Patterns and Story-Shapes: The Statistical Analysis of Narrative Style
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All the Way Through: Testing for Authorship in Different Frequency Strata
TL;DR: The operation of two new tests of authorship are described, which rely on controlled contrasts of word-frequency and both exclude the very common words, which have been put to such good use in recent years.
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Questions of Authorship: Attribution and Beyond A Lecture Delivered on the Occasion of the Roberto Busa Award ACH-ALLC 2001, New York
TL;DR: The authors presented a methode d'identification de l'auteur d'un texte, based on a hierarchique des frequences des mots communs a l'ensemble of textes.
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‘An ocean where each kind. . .’: Statistical analysis and some major determinants of literary style
TL;DR: The specimens offered here deal, first, with differences among Jane Austen's characters and, secondly, with similarities among authors studied relate to historical eras and authorial gender.