Reconsidering authorship in the Ciceronian corpus through computational authorship attribution
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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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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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quintus Tullius Cicero Cicero computational authorship attribution Rhetorica ad Herennium De inventione Commentariolum petitionis De optimo genere oratorum Rutilius Lupus digital humanities cultural history authorship digitaaliset ihmistieteet klassillinen filologia latinankielinen kirjallisuus tekijyys tekstinlouhinta kirjalliset lähteet
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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.License
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