Non- traditional authorship attribution methods. A critical survey and research directions
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Abstract
The article discusses, from a methodological point of view, the contribution of quantitative methods to the field of authorship attribution studies. After offering an updated survey of them, with a particular focus on Old Italian, this study attempts to provide a new approach to texts of unknown authorship that allows to exploit the potential of both large textual databases and new compu- tational stylistic techniques in a careful and reasoned way, leaving the figure of the philologist to be the protagonist.
Keywords
- Authorship Attribution
- philology
- quantitative methods
- computational tech- niques
- Old Italian
- Fiore
- Dante Alighieri
