Computational authorship attribution in medieval Latin corpora: the case of the Monk of Lido (ca. 1101–08) and Gallus Anonymous (ca. 1113–17).
This paper applies computational methods of authorship attribution to shed light on a still open question concerning two Latin works of the twelfth century: are the anonymous authors of the Translatio s. Nicolai (ca. 1101–1108) and the Gesta principum polonorum (ca. 1113–1117) one and the same perso...
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