An information theoretic clustering approach for unveiling authorship affinities in Shakespearean era plays and poems.

In this paper we analyse the word frequency profiles of a set of works from the Shakespearean era to uncover patterns of relationship between them, highlighting the connections within authorial canons. We used a text corpus comprising 256 plays and poems from the 16th and 17th centuries, with 17 wor...

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Main Authors: Ahmed Shamsul Arefin, Renato Vimieiro, Carlos Riveros, Hugh Craig, Pablo Moscato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4210181?pdf=render