DOI: 10.53084/22209050_2022_25_19
О.В. Алиева
Опыт измерения стилистической однородности методом Delta
на материале Платоновского корпуса.

Аннотация: В статье рассматривается возможность количественного измерения стилистической неоднородности текстов на материале Платоновского корпуса с применением метода измерения стилистической разницы, известного как Delta Берроуза. Автор приходит к выводу, что использование для машинной классификации ограниченного числа авторских профилей, соотносимых с заведомо известными или предполагаемыми колебаниями авторского стиля, малоинформативно. Вместо этого предлагается использование шорт-листов на отрезках разной длины, когда для каждого блока испытуемого текста определяются его ближайшие соседи. При этом в работе с блоками в 3000 и 5000 слов подтвердилась установленная другими количественными методами
принадлежность «Филеба» к «поздней» группе, что подтверждает эффективность Delta. Результаты, полученные на блоках меньшей длины, более подвержены случайным колебаниям частотности, однако они могут приниматься во внимание в тех случаях, когда есть дополнительные основания допускать стилистические сдвиги в определенных отрывках.


Ключевые слова: Delta, стилометрия, Платон, частотные слова, «Филеб»

Для цитирования: Алиева О.В. Опыт измерения стилистической однородности методом Delta на материале Платоновского корпуса. Аристей XXV (2022): 19–37.

O.V. Alieva
Measuring Stylistic Homogeneity with Burrows' Delta: An Experiment with Corpus Platonicum

Abstract: This paper considers the possibility of quantitative measurement of Plato's style using Burrows' Delta. The author concludes that the result is not very informative if a limited number of author's profiles, each corresponding to the known or assumed fluctuations in the author's style, is used for machine classification. Instead, minimal Delta distances calculated for the whole corpus can be used for making short-lists for each segment of a test text. Thus, with blocks of 3000 and 5000, Delta confirms the traditional assignment of Plato's Philebus to the late group, listing among its closest neighbors the Laws, the Sophist and the Statesman. For smaller samples (1000 words), dialogues of the middle group make appearance in the short-lists for some blocks. Even if these results are more likely to be affected by random noise, they can be taken into consideration if there are additional reasons to suspect stylistic shifts in the given blocks.

Keywords: Delta, stylometry, Plato, most frequent words, Philebus

To cite this article: Alieva O.V. Experience in measuring stylistic homogeneity by the Delta method on the material of the Platonic Corpus. Aristeas XXV (2022): 19–37.

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О.В. Алиева / O.V. Alieva