Reconsidering authorship in the Ciceronian corpus through computational authorship attribution
Abstract
In recent years, methods of computational authorship attribution have offered promising results for the reattribution of classical texts. We use and further develop these methods to verify the authorship of several texts belonging or related to the Ciceronian corpus: Rhetorica ad C. Herennium, De inventione, De optimo genere oratorum, and Commentariolum petitionis. We use two classifiers, Support Vector Machine and Convolutional Neural Network, of which the latter is more accurate except in regard to certain aspects of vocabulary. The most important of our results is that Commentariolum petitionis seems to be authored by Marcus Cicero, not by his brother Quintus.
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Research article
Published
2019
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Publication in research information system
Publisher
Centro di Studi Ciceroniani
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201912205470Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
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Peer reviewed
ISSN
2532-5353
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13135/2532-5353/3518
Language
English
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Ciceroniana On Line
Citation
- Vainio, R., Välimäki, R., Hella, A., Kaartinen, M., Immonen, T., Vesanto, A., & Ginter, F. (2019). Reconsidering authorship in the Ciceronian corpus through computational authorship attribution. Ciceroniana On Line, 3(1), 15-48. https://doi.org/10.13135/2532-5353/3518
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This study has been funded by the Academy of Finland, Academy Programme DIGIHUM 2015-2019: consortium Profiling Premodern Authors (PROPREAU), project number 293024.
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