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Burrows's Delta: a standalone construct

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Digital humanities

a distance measure that compares texts on standardized frequencies of the most common words to attribute authorship.

In digital humanities, Burrows's Delta refers to a distance measure that compares texts on standardized frequencies of the most common words to attribute authorship. This meaning comes from Burrows (2002) in Literary and Linguistic Computing.[1]

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References

Burrows, J. (2002). 'Delta': a Measure of Stylistic Difference and a Guide to Likely Authorship. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 17(3), 267-287. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/17.3.267

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