Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Interpreting Burrow's Delta: Geometric and Probabilistic Foundations. |
| Authors: |
Argamon, Shlomo1 argamon@iit.edu |
| Source: |
Literary & Linguistic Computing. Jun2008, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p131-147. 17p. 19 Graphs. |
| Subjects: |
Authorship, Attribution of authorship, Burrows, John F., Measurement, Probability theory, Distance geometry, Metric spaces, Distances, Author-publisher relations |
| Abstract: |
While Burrows's intuitive and elegant 'Delta' measure for authorship attribution has proven to be extremely useful for authorship attribution, a theoretical understanding of its operation has remained somewhat obscure. In this article, I address this issue by introducing a geometric interpretation of Delta, which further allows us to interpret Delta as a probabilistic ranking principle. This interpretation gives us a better understanding of the method's fundamental assumptions and potential limitations, as well as leading to several well-founded variations and extensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Engineering Source |
