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Thorsten Vitt
Researcher at University of Würzburg
Publications - 8
Citations - 151
Thorsten Vitt is an academic researcher from University of Würzburg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stylometry & Empirical research. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 8 publications receiving 121 citations. Previous affiliations of Thorsten Vitt include Technische Universität Darmstadt.
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Understanding and explaining Delta measures for authorship attribution
Stefan Evert,Thomas Proisl,Fotis Jannidis,Isabella Reger,Steffen Pielström,Christof Schöch,Thorsten Vitt +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that feature vector normalization, that is, the transformation of the feature vectors to a uniform length of 1 (implicit in the cosine measure), is the decisive factor for the improvement of Delta proposed recently.
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TextGrid and eHumanities
Peter Gietz,Andreas Aschenbrenner,Stefan Budenbender,Fotis Jannidis,Marc Wilhelm Küster,Christoph Ludwig,Wolfgang Pempe,Thorsten Vitt,Werner Wegstein,Andrea Zielinski +9 more
TL;DR: TextGrid is a new Grid project in the framework of the German D-Grid initiative, with the aim to deploy Grid technologies for humanities scholars working on historical (German) texts.
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Towards a better understanding of Burrows's Delta in literary authorship attribution
TL;DR: The effects of standardization and vector normalization on the statistical distributions of features and the resulting text clustering quality are evaluated and supervised selection of discriminant words are explored as a procedure for further improving authorship attribution.
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Explaining Delta, or: How do distance measures for authorship attribution work?
TL;DR: This paper presents findings from a larger investigation of authorship attribution methods, which pertains to the effects of normalization methods and distance measures in different languages, describing the aims, data and methods.