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The ways in which writers use small function words, such as articles, prepositions and conjunctions, has proven particularly telling. In a survey of historical and current stylometric methods, Efstathios Stamatatos points out that function words are “used in a largely unconscious manner by the authors, and they are topic-independent.” For stylometric analysis, this is very advantageous, as such an unconscious pattern is likely to vary less, over an author’s corpus, than his or her general vocabulary. (It is also very hard for a would-be forger to copy.) Function words have also been identified as important markers of literary genre and of chronology.<ref>[https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/introduction-to-stylometry-with-python ''Introduction to stylometry with Python''] by François Dominic Laramée</ref>}}
The ways in which writers use small function words, such as articles, prepositions and conjunctions, has proven particularly telling. In a survey of historical and current stylometric methods, Efstathios Stamatatos points out that function words are “used in a largely unconscious manner by the authors, and they are topic-independent.” For stylometric analysis, this is very advantageous, as such an unconscious pattern is likely to vary less, over an author’s corpus, than his or her general vocabulary. (It is also very hard for a would-be forger to copy.) Function words have also been identified as important markers of literary genre and of chronology.<ref>[https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/introduction-to-stylometry-with-python ''Introduction to stylometry with Python''] by François Dominic Laramée</ref>}}
== Stylometry concepts ==
Temple University Libraries states about Stylometry:
{{Cquote|Like many strategies in the digital humanities, stylometry combines traditional close reading alongside more distant reading.
Close reading
In literary criticism, close reading describes a sustained attention to the text, looking at word choice, syntax, and particular images, to reveal meaning. This methodology came out of New Criticism and does not rely on historical or biographical research, intending to analyze the complexities of the individual text instead.
Distant reading
This is a concept coined by Franco Moretti that suggests that looking at the wider scope of literature, through larger computational or archival methods, can help us see larger trends and reveal previously obscured systems within literary study.<ref>[https://guides.temple.edu/stylometryfordh Stylometry Methods and Practices], Temple University Libraries</ref>
== See also ==
== See also ==