Neutralising the Authorial Signal in Delta by Penalization: Stylometric Clustering of Genre in Spanish Novels

José Calvo Tello, Daniel Schlör, Ulrike Henny-Krahmer, Christof Schöch
2017 Digital Humanities Conference  
We propose a way to work with the stylometric distance measure Delta to analyse the subgenre of texts written by different authors. For that, we neutralize the author signal by penalizing the texts from the same writer, allowing the texts to have their shortest distances to other authors' works. We test this method with several subcorpora of Spanish prose and a corpus of French theatre.
dblp:conf/dihu/TelloSHS17 fatcat:lk6dytekcva2rjeuqinwky65xy