[RNLD: ] eHumanities talk at MPI Nijmegen

[Sebastian Drude]

[Apologies for cross-postings]



Dear all,

The first lecture in the TLA Lecture Series on e-Humanities will be given
the 9th of may by Mike Kestemont. He will present his work on quantitative
authorship attribution in medieval literature.



Who: Mike Kestemont

What: The Weight of the Author -- Quantitative Authorship Attribution in
Medieval Dutch Literature

Where: MPI for Psycholinguistics, room 1.63 (main lecture hall)

When: Wednesday 9th of May, 10:30



Abstract



Our cultural heritage in the Low Countries is rich in cases of unresolved
authorship. Medieval Dutch literature, for instance, knows many famous yet
anonymous works, such as "Karel ende Elegast" or "Beatrijs". Being able to
attribute such works to known authors would greatly enhance our
understanding of this literature. Style-based authorship attribution has
recently been a popular topic in stylometry -- the quantitatve study of
(literary) writing style. The principal idea in this research field is that
each author has a unique writing style which can be detected in anonymous
texts using quantitative measurements of specific stylistic features. With
these techniques, it might be possible to shed new light on the signature
of many anonymous medieval texts. In this talk I will present my PhD
research into computational authorship attribution in Middle Dutch
literature. I will discuss a number of representative case studies where
stylometric techniques have led to innovative re!

 search results. I will argue that even with modest quantitative and
digital tools, huge advances can be made in the field of the Humanities.



You are all cordially invited to attend.

If you plan to attend please send an email to tla-lectures at mpi.nl (for
administrative reasons).



Greetings,



Daan Broeder

Sebastian Drude

Herman Stehouwer
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