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Saturday, 20 September 2014

The Bronte sisters and stylometric analysis

http://alanabeeblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/computational-stylistics-and-the-bronte-sisters/
http://alanabeeblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/the-bronte-sisters-a-stylometric-analysis/

You can click the 2 links above to read the whole thing. 
Cluster analysis when there are only books by the Brontes: 

(http://alanabeeblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/brontecluster.png)

When some works by Jane Austen and George Eliot are added: 

(http://alanabeeblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/bronte2.png)


(http://alanabeeblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/bronteconsen2.png)

Charlotte, Emily and Anne are, to me, distinctive, but now according to this analysis, they appear like a single author. Not sure if it's reliable, but this is interesting. 

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