English

Does Burrows' Delta really confirm that Rowling and Galbraith are the same author?

Computation and Language 2024-07-16 v1

Abstract

The stylo package includes a frequency table that can be used to calculate distances between texts and thus independently solve the problem of attribution of The Cuckoo's Calling, a novel that J.K. Rowling said she wrote. However, the set of texts for this table is very vulnerable to criticism. The authors there are not modern, they wrote in a different genre. I set out to test the performance of the method on texts that are more relevant to the research question.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2407.10301,
  title  = {Does Burrows' Delta really confirm that Rowling and Galbraith are the same author?},
  author = {Boris Orekhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10301},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

9 pages, 6 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-28T17:40:28.933Z