A syntactic characterization of authorship style surrounding proper names.

Accurately determining who wrote a manuscript has captivated scholars of literary history for centuries, as the true author can have important ramifications in religion, law, literary studies, philosophy, and education. A wide array of lexical, character, syntactic, semantic, and application-specifi...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities pp. 53 - 71
Autores principales: Lučić, Ana, Blake, Catherine L.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA 04/01/2015
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