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Do these methods have any history of, say, being able to successfully predict things where we have a known "ground truth"? We have plenty of cases of famous aut
by glangdale 7y ago
Do these methods have any history of, say, being able to successfully predict things where we have a known "ground truth"? We have plenty of cases of famous authors writing under pseudonyms for positive examples, as well as having considerable ability to know that certain authorship is unambiguous (e.g. much modern writing may have involved multiple drafts being retained somewhere, or have been done with witnesses, etc). So we can probably safely say that most of the authorship of 20th Century novels is fairly well-known give or take a long-suffering wife or two ("who patiently typed up my genius"); do the same methods here actually work to predict things that we already know?
Or will they, with appropriate levels of massaging, ascribe portions of Dashiell Hammett's oeuvre to Raymond Chandler?
- boldslogan 7y agofor example that j.k. rowling crime novel written under a pseudonym was discovered by just a random astute person who commented somewhere(maybe on the amazon reviews) that it felt like j.k. rowling wrote it. it would be cool to try this method and see if it could detect anything.
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- MaxBarraclough 7y ago> discovered by just a random astute person who commented somewhere I don't see that this really counts as 'discovered'. I'm sure thousands of people have said It felt like it was written by Rowling about many different books.
- DanBC 7y agoThat's not quite how it happened. People spotted that Galbraith and Rowling had the same agent and the same editor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling#Cormoran_Strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling#Cormoran_Strike
- password4321 7y agoStylometry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20621402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20621402