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    Attributing the Authorship of the Henry VI Plays by Word Adjacency

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    2016-04-01
    Author
    Egan, Gabriel;
    Segarra, Santiago;
    Eisen, Mark;
    Ribeiro, Alejandro
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    Abstract
    This article reports the invention of a new means of authorship attribution based on the relative distances (measured in intervening words) between functions words in the texts being analysed. The data about distances are stored in Markov chains (with each function word represented as a node and the summed distance between a pair of words being represented as a weighted edge between their respective nodes) called Word Adjacency Networks (WANs). The method is applied to the problem of determining the authorship of the three plays called Henry VI Parts One, Two, and Three that are traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare, and we find that Christopher Marlowe had a hand in each of them.
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    The project was a collaboration between the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University and the Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
    Citation : Egan, G. (2016) Attributing the Authorship of the Henry VI Plays by Word Adjacency. Shakespeare Quarterly, 67 (2), pp. 232-256
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    http://hdl.handle.net/2086/12657
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1353/shq.2016.0024
    ISSN : 0037-3222
    Research Group : Centre for Textual Studies (CTS)
    Research Institute : Institute of English
    Peer Reviewed : Yes
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