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<p class="MsoNormal">new book information<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[NLP <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Computational & corpus linguistics / Natural language processing<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Literary Detective Work on the Computer<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Michael P. Oakes<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">University of Wolverhampton<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Computational linguistics can be used to uncover mysteries in text which are not
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<p class="MsoNormal">always obvious to visual inspection. For example, the computer analysis of writing
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<p class="MsoNormal">style can show who might be the true author of a text in cases of disputed authorship
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<p class="MsoNormal">or suspected plagiarism. The theoretical background to authorship attribution is
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<p class="MsoNormal">presented in a step by step manner, and comprehensive reviews of the field are given in
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<p class="MsoNormal">two specialist areas, the writings of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and
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<p class="MsoNormal">the various writing styles seen in religious texts. The final chapter looks at the progress
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<p class="MsoNormal">computers have made in the decipherment of lost languages. This book is written for
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<p class="MsoNormal">students and researchers of general linguistics, computational and corpus linguistics,
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<p class="MsoNormal">and computer forensics. It will inspire future researchers to study these topics for
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<p class="MsoNormal">themselves, and gives sufficient details of the methods and resources to get them started.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[Natural Language Processing, 12] 2014. x, 283 pp.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hb 978 90 272 4999 9 EUR 99.00<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">E-book 978 90 272 7013 9 EUR 99.00<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Table of contents<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Preface<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chapter 1. Author identification<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chapter 2. Plagiarism and spam filtering<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chapter 3. Computer studies of <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shakespearean authorship<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chapter 4. Stylometric analysis <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of religious texts<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chapter 5. Computers and decipherment<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">References<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Index<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Interesting, packed and wide-ranging.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Prof. Ward E.Y. Elliott, Claremont McKenna College<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“This book will prove a valuable resource for anyone wishing to gain a working knowledge of the methods
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<p class="MsoNormal">and achievements of computational stylometry. It covers a wide range of studies in the field, explaining
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<p class="MsoNormal">the main results and the techniques used to find them in an accessible manner. A strong point is that
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<p class="MsoNormal">it includes a number of worked examples showing, with the aid of small-scale data sets, how some
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<p class="MsoNormal">of the more important quantitative methods can be implemented. A further strength is its use of the
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<p class="MsoNormal">public-domain system R to illustrate how certain important ideas could be put into practice.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Both newcomers and experienced bardographers will find much of interest in Chapter 3, which gives a
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<p class="MsoNormal">dispassionate, empirically grounded overview of a number of key studies of the authorship of the Shakespearean
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<p class="MsoNormal">canon. It also includes a clear step-by-step exposition of how Bayes’s Rule may be used in investigations
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<p class="MsoNormal">of this kind. Chapter 5, on decipherment, contains fascinating accounts of the attempts to decipher the
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rongorongo glyphs of Rapanui (Easter Island) and the ancient seals of the lost Indus Valley civilization, among
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<p class="MsoNormal">others -- introducing the basic notions of Information Theory and Markov modelling as it does so.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Richard S. Forsyth, Freelance researcher<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“In my view this is an excellent and much-missed overview of, and introduction to, the use of statistical tests, methods
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<p class="MsoNormal">and approaches to language decipherment and recognition. The in-depth discussions of the methods employed in
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<p class="MsoNormal">the so-far unsuccessful decipherment of Rongorongo and the Indus Valley texts is an especially engaging read.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Jarle Ebeling, University of Oslo<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“The chapter, illustrated with several examples of problems in New Testament Studies, will
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<p class="MsoNormal">provide a good introduction and overview of the subject area, targeted at computer scientists
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<p class="MsoNormal">who are specialists neither in statistics nor in biblical studies. The emphasis on the methods of
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<p class="MsoNormal">multivariate statistical analysis, such as correspondence analysis, is a welcome feature.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Very Rev. Dr. Andris Abakuks, Birkbeck College<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Very comprehensive and easy to read.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Paul D. Clough, University of Sheffield<o:p></o:p></p>
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