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Digital humanities

a variant of Burrows's Delta that compares texts by the angle between their standardized word-frequency profiles, shown to improve authorship attribution.

In digital humanities, Cosine Delta refers to a variant of Burrows's Delta that compares texts by the angle between their standardized word-frequency profiles, shown to improve authorship attribution. This meaning comes from Evert (2017) in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.[1]

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attribution3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs authorship attribution1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct Burrows's Delta1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

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, 32(suppl_2), ii4-ii16. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqx023

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