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Understanding and explaining Delta measures for authorship attribution

Stefan Evert, Fotis Jannidis, Thomas Proisl et al., 2017. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.

Explains why Burrows' Delta works, using controlled experiments that vary feature scaling and distance measure to see which choices give correct authorship attributions.

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Listed as a reference on the Burrows' Delta method page.

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Evert, S., Jannidis, F., Proisl, T., Reger, I., Pielström, S., Schöch, C., & Vitt, T. (2017). Understanding and explaining Delta measures for authorship attribution. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqx023
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