The Anonymous 1821 Translation of Goetheas Faustus: A Cluster Analytic Approach
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: The present article tests that result. The approach to test this result is stylometric. Specifically, function word usage is selected as the stylometric criterion, and 80 function words are used to define a 73-dimensional function word frequency profile vector for each text in the corpus of Coleridge's literary works and for a selection of works by a range of contemporary English authors. Each profile vector is a point in 80-dimensional vector space, and 5 different cluster analytic methods are used to determine the distribution of profile vectors in the space. If the result being tested is valid, then the profile for the 1821 translation should be closer in the space to works known to be by Coleridge than to works by the other authors.
Author: Refat Aljumily
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7217422355