Journal article
Authorship Attribution via Occupancy-problem-type Indices
Journal of quantitative linguistics, Vol.30(1), pp.27-41
01/02/2023
DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2022.2037276
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new methodology for authorship attribution based on a profile of indices related to the occupancy problem, called occupancy-problem indices. The occupancy problem has a long history and is an important example in standard textbooks like Feller (1971). We base our methodology on function words. We establish a testing procedure by constructing a confidence band of the occupancy-problem indices using the sampling distribution of the number of distinct function words. We validate our proposed methodology using controlled and constructed writing samples whose authorship is known. We then apply this methodology to explore the question of who wrote the 15(th) Oz book, which has a disputing authorship between Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) and his successor Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976) on the Oz series.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Authorship Attribution via Occupancy-problem-type Indices
- Creators
- Lukun Zheng - Western Kentucky UniversityHuiqiang Zheng - University of IowaChandra Kundu - University of Central Florida
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of quantitative linguistics, Vol.30(1), pp.27-41
- DOI
- 10.1080/09296174.2022.2037276
- ISSN
- 0929-6174
- eISSN
- 1744-5035
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 15
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/02/2023
- Academic Unit
- Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Record Identifier
- 9984397910602771
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