In stylometry, authorship questions are currently approached in terms of two separate tasks: authorship attribution and authorship verification. Recent research in stylometry often interpreted both as classification tasks and concentrated on further improving the accuracy of these two procedures. This study proposes an alternative approach to…[Read more]

In stylometry, authorship questions are currently approached in terms of two separate tasks: authorship attribution and authorship verification. Recent research in stylometry often interpreted both as classification tasks and concentrated on further improving the accuracy of these two procedures. This study proposes an alternative approach to…[Read more]

This contribution reports on the collaborative effort of building an open access multilingual corpus of European novels published 1840-1920 (the European Literary Text Collection – ELTeC) within the COST Action “Distant Reading for European Literary History” (COST Action CA16204). Working at the intersection of many languages and cultures, we…[Read more]

Since their local separation in the 18th century, the French language variety in Canadian Québec (FQ) and the varieties spoken in the French Hexagon (FH) developed independently. As a result, their literary texts are marked by linguistic singularities especially present in the lexicon. Meanwhile in the digital literary studies, innovative methods…[Read more]

This contribution reports on the collaborative effort of building an open access multilingual corpus of European novels published 1840-1920 (the European Literary Text Collection – ELTeC) within the COST Action “Distant Reading for European Literary History” (COST Action CA16204). Working at the intersection of many languages and cultures, we…[Read more]

Poster submission for DH2020. This poster discusses the adequacy of semantic maps for the representation of semantic shits and how previous models can be enriched by using visual cues to add more information. The poster presents a visualisation proposal applied to the diachronic study of modal markers in Latin.