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...

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Published in:	Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 131 - 148
Main Author:	Argamon, Shlomo
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Jun2008
Subjects:	Authorship Attribution of authorship Burrows, John F. Measurement Probability theory Distance geometry Metric spaces Distances Author-publisher relations
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