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I would suggest Hippolytus, but it is a rather daunting subject.

Mike Z wrote:I would suggest Hippolytus, but it is a rather daunting subject.

Thanks for the suggestion. It certainly would have relevant results for scholarship, being a well-known thorny problem.

I wouldn't mind seeing other analyses of known forgeries. It seems to me that there might be a difference between identifying misattribution and forgery with stylometry, since only in the latter case is the author probably trying to disguise his writing.

Peter Kirby wrote:

Mike Z wrote:I would suggest Hippolytus, but it is a rather daunting subject.

Thanks for the suggestion. It certainly would have relevant results for scholarship, being a well-known thorny problem.

One problem is that a lot of "Hippolytus" survives only in translation and Greek stylometry is not possible.

The most obvious thing to do in Greek is try to determine whether 'Refutation of all Heresies is by the same person as Against Noetus

Andrew Criddle

Tenorikuma wrote:I wouldn't mind seeing other analyses of known forgeries. It seems to me that there might be a difference between identifying misattribution and forgery with stylometry, since only in the latter case is the author probably trying to disguise his writing.

Good suggestion. We have at least one advantage; the techniques used in ancient times to mimic style (or what-have-you) cannot improve ... but our techniques of detection can.

Out of curiosity, have you considered comparing 3 Corinthians to the other epistles?

Tenorikuma wrote:Out of curiosity, have you considered comparing 3 Corinthians to the other epistles?

It's very short. I'd need something much better than I have to make anything meaningful out 3 Corinthians.

My next stylometry project will be to improve the algorithm.