Interpreting Burrow's Delta: Geometric and Probabilistic Foundations.
While Burrows's intuitive and elegant 'Delta' measure for authorship attribution has proven to be extremely useful for authorship attribution, a theoretical understanding of its operation has remained somewhat obscure. In this article, I address this issue by introducing a geometric interpretation o...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 131 - 148 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2008
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| Sumario: | While Burrows's intuitive and elegant 'Delta' measure for authorship attribution has proven to be extremely useful for authorship attribution, a theoretical understanding of its operation has remained somewhat obscure. In this article, I address this issue by introducing a geometric interpretation of Delta, which further allows us to interpret Delta as a probabilistic ranking principle. This interpretation gives us a better understanding of the method's fundamental assumptions and potential limitations, as well as leading to several well-founded variations and extensions. |
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