A1 Journal article (refereed)
Reconsidering authorship in the Ciceronian corpus through computational authorship attribution (2019)
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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Publication details
All authors or editors: Vainio, Raija; Välimäki, Reima; Hella, Anni; Kaartinen, Marjo; Immonen, Teemu; Vesanto, Aleksi; Ginter, Filip
Journal or series: Ciceroniana On Line
eISSN: 2532-5353
Publication year: 2019
Volume: 3
Issue number: 1
Pages range: 15-48
Publisher: Centro di Studi Ciceroniani
Publication country: Italy
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/2532-5353/3518
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Open Access channel
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/66996
Abstract
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.
Keywords: classical philology; Latin literature; literary sources; authorship (general); digital humanities; text mining
Free keywords: Cicero; computational authorship attribution; Rhetorica ad Herennium; De inventione; Commentariolum petitionis; De optimo genere oratorum; Rutilius Lupus; digital humanities; cultural history; authorship
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Reporting Year: 2019
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