Background: Within the structural and grammatical bounds of a common language, all authors develo... more Background: Within the structural and grammatical bounds of a common language, all authors develop their own distinctive writing styles. Whether the relative occurrence of common words can be measured to produce accurate models of authorship is of particular interest. This work introduces a new score that helps to highlight such variations in word occurrence, and is applied to produce models of authorship of a large group of plays from the Shakespearean era.
Description Recording the number of times a particular word or phrase is used in a passage, or th... more Description Recording the number of times a particular word or phrase is used in a passage, or the relative frequency of a metrical feature or of a rhetorical figure, has been a familiar practice in Shakespeare studies for at least a century. This sort of measurement and comparison is a staple of authorship studies. Along the way these practices have suffered some swingeing blows, such as Sir EK Chambers's attack of 1924 on the 'disintegrators', Samuel Schoenbaum's ridicule of the 'parallelographic school'in the 1960s, and Brian ...
Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship, 2009
Description This book confronts the main unsolved mysteries in Shakespeare's canon throu... more Description This book confronts the main unsolved mysteries in Shakespeare's canon through computer analysis of Shakespeare's and other writers' styles. In some cases their analysis confirms the current scholarly consensus, bringing long-standing questions to something like a final resolution. In other areas the book provides more surprising conclusions: that Shakespeare wrote the 1602 additions to The Spanish Tragedy, for example, and that Marlowe along with Shakespeare was a collaborator on Henry VI, Parts ...
Lesley Wallace is the Manager of the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library and Library Archives a... more Lesley Wallace is the Manager of the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library and Library Archives at Curtin University Library. She worked extensively with the papers of Tom Fitzgerald held at the Library in the course of developing the web resource Investigating John Curtin: The ...
Not one of the plays included in Heminge and Condell's First Folio, Mr William Shake... more Not one of the plays included in Heminge and Condell's First Folio, Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623) has ever been successfully 'de-attributed'in its entirety from that author's dramatic corpus. But the consensus of modern scholars is that several of the plays are to some extent collaborative. Among these, no other has presented scholars interested in attribution with such intractable problems as the one there entitled The third Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke of Yorke. The ...
Abstract In this essay the author reassesses affinities between the language of the poem and the ... more Abstract In this essay the author reassesses affinities between the language of the poem and the characteristic linguistic habits of Chapman, Davies, and Shakespeare. He uses a single large corpus of poems and plays by these three writers and a number of their contemporaries, as well as some straightforwardly quantitative measures: a list of words peculiar to an author, a list of words never appearing in his or her work, a list of adjacent word pairs that appear regularly in an author's work, and a list of pairs appearing rarely in ...
Asa book which, through text corpora and computer-assisted quantitative methods of enquiry, attem... more Asa book which, through text corpora and computer-assisted quantitative methods of enquiry, attempts to answer some of the more substantial questions relating to Shakespeare's extant canon to what extent are his texts the product of various forms of collaboration, ...
ABSTRACT Background: Measuring and describing the effects of aphasia on the informativeness of la... more ABSTRACT Background: Measuring and describing the effects of aphasia on the informativeness of language is a complex process. Due to technological advances in the recent years, the processes involved in the measurement of language can be automated through the use of computerised analyses. In the present research, the Computerized Propositional Idea Density Rater (CPIDR 3.2) provides an automated method for calculating Propositional Idea Density (PD), a measure which has been shown to be sensitive to the effects of ageing and dementia. The measure of PD quantifies the proportion of words within a text that are semantically intrinsic to its overall meaning.
In 1989 Donald W. Foster published a book about the authorship of an Elegy for William Peter, pri... more In 1989 Donald W. Foster published a book about the authorship of an Elegy for William Peter, printed in 1612 as the work of "WS" Foster's book reprints the poem and presents the results of a great many stylistic tests designed to test attributions, especially to the best-known ...
Background: Within the structural and grammatical bounds of a common language, all authors develo... more Background: Within the structural and grammatical bounds of a common language, all authors develop their own distinctive writing styles. Whether the relative occurrence of common words can be measured to produce accurate models of authorship is of particular interest. This work introduces a new score that helps to highlight such variations in word occurrence, and is applied to produce models of authorship of a large group of plays from the Shakespearean era.
Description Recording the number of times a particular word or phrase is used in a passage, or th... more Description Recording the number of times a particular word or phrase is used in a passage, or the relative frequency of a metrical feature or of a rhetorical figure, has been a familiar practice in Shakespeare studies for at least a century. This sort of measurement and comparison is a staple of authorship studies. Along the way these practices have suffered some swingeing blows, such as Sir EK Chambers's attack of 1924 on the 'disintegrators', Samuel Schoenbaum's ridicule of the 'parallelographic school'in the 1960s, and Brian ...
Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship, 2009
Description This book confronts the main unsolved mysteries in Shakespeare's canon throu... more Description This book confronts the main unsolved mysteries in Shakespeare's canon through computer analysis of Shakespeare's and other writers' styles. In some cases their analysis confirms the current scholarly consensus, bringing long-standing questions to something like a final resolution. In other areas the book provides more surprising conclusions: that Shakespeare wrote the 1602 additions to The Spanish Tragedy, for example, and that Marlowe along with Shakespeare was a collaborator on Henry VI, Parts ...
Lesley Wallace is the Manager of the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library and Library Archives a... more Lesley Wallace is the Manager of the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library and Library Archives at Curtin University Library. She worked extensively with the papers of Tom Fitzgerald held at the Library in the course of developing the web resource Investigating John Curtin: The ...
Not one of the plays included in Heminge and Condell's First Folio, Mr William Shake... more Not one of the plays included in Heminge and Condell's First Folio, Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623) has ever been successfully 'de-attributed'in its entirety from that author's dramatic corpus. But the consensus of modern scholars is that several of the plays are to some extent collaborative. Among these, no other has presented scholars interested in attribution with such intractable problems as the one there entitled The third Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke of Yorke. The ...
Abstract In this essay the author reassesses affinities between the language of the poem and the ... more Abstract In this essay the author reassesses affinities between the language of the poem and the characteristic linguistic habits of Chapman, Davies, and Shakespeare. He uses a single large corpus of poems and plays by these three writers and a number of their contemporaries, as well as some straightforwardly quantitative measures: a list of words peculiar to an author, a list of words never appearing in his or her work, a list of adjacent word pairs that appear regularly in an author's work, and a list of pairs appearing rarely in ...
Asa book which, through text corpora and computer-assisted quantitative methods of enquiry, attem... more Asa book which, through text corpora and computer-assisted quantitative methods of enquiry, attempts to answer some of the more substantial questions relating to Shakespeare's extant canon to what extent are his texts the product of various forms of collaboration, ...
ABSTRACT Background: Measuring and describing the effects of aphasia on the informativeness of la... more ABSTRACT Background: Measuring and describing the effects of aphasia on the informativeness of language is a complex process. Due to technological advances in the recent years, the processes involved in the measurement of language can be automated through the use of computerised analyses. In the present research, the Computerized Propositional Idea Density Rater (CPIDR 3.2) provides an automated method for calculating Propositional Idea Density (PD), a measure which has been shown to be sensitive to the effects of ageing and dementia. The measure of PD quantifies the proportion of words within a text that are semantically intrinsic to its overall meaning.
In 1989 Donald W. Foster published a book about the authorship of an Elegy for William Peter, pri... more In 1989 Donald W. Foster published a book about the authorship of an Elegy for William Peter, printed in 1612 as the work of "WS" Foster's book reprints the poem and presents the results of a great many stylistic tests designed to test attributions, especially to the best-known ...
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