2ATTRIBUTING AUTHORSHIP WITH STYLOMETRY
Stylometry is the quantitative study of literary style through computational text analysis. It’s based on the idea that we all have a unique, consistent, and recognizable style to our writing. This includes our vocabulary, our use of punctuation, the average length of our sentences and words, and so on.
A common application of stylometry is authorship attribution. Do you ever wonder if Shakespeare really wrote all his plays? Or if John Lennon or Paul McCartney wrote the song “In My Life”? Could Robert Galbraith, author of A Cuckoo’s Calling, really be J. K. Rowling in disguise? Stylometry can find the answer! ...
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