Meaning of stylometrist | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who uses stylometry to analyze the style and content of text.

Examples

“What is to be said of the authorship of the Epistles is in the end⟳ a matter⟳ for the Scripture scholar, not the stylometrist.”

“For every stylometrist whose research⟳ supports an attribution, there is another who can point⟳ out weaknesses in that research⟳ and cast⟳ doubt⟳ on the claim⟳.”

“David Hoover — a skilled stylometrist, and therefore a great lover of lists—likes to play⟳ a game with his students in which he shows them a list of novels and asks them to rank them according to “vocabulary richness” (defined as the largest number⟳ of different words per fifty-thousand-word block⟳)”

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