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Language Individuation and Marker Words: Shakespeare and His Maxwell's Demon

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Title
Language Individuation and Marker Words: Shakespeare and His Maxwell's Demon
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PLOS ONE, June 2013
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0066813
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John Marsden, David Budden, Hugh Craig, Pablo Moscato

Abstract

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.

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Country Count As %
Germany 2 6%
Peru 1 3%
Japan 1 3%
United States 1 3%
Poland 1 3%
Unknown 30 83%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 22%
Researcher 4 11%
Student > Master 4 11%
Other 3 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 8%
Other 9 25%
Unknown 5 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 12 33%
Linguistics 5 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 11%
Computer Science 3 8%
Social Sciences 2 6%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 5 14%