'I would I had that corporal soundness': Pervez Rizvi's analysis of the Word Adjacency Network method of authorship attribution

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dc.contributor.authorEgan, Gabriel
dc.contributor.authorEisen, Mark
dc.contributor.authorSegarra, Santiago
dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, Alejandro
dc.date.acceptance2023
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-18T12:48:30Z
dc.date.available2023-04-18T12:48:30Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractIn his two-part article "An Analysis of the Word Adjacency Network Method" (Rizvi 2022a; Rizvi 2022b), Pervez Rizvi attempts to replicate the Word Adjacency Network (WAN) method for authorship attribution and show that it does not produce the new knowledge that we, its inventors, claim for it. In the present essay we will show that Rizvi misrepresents fundamental aspects of the WAN method, that his attempted replication fails not because the method is flawed but because he erred in replicating it, and that Rizvi misunderstands key aspects of the mathematics of Information Theory that the method usesen
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dc.identifier.citationEisen, M., Segarra, S., Ribeiro, A. and Egan, G. (2023) 'I would I had that corporal soundness': Pervez Rizvi's analysis of the Word Adjacency Network method of authorship attribution. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities,en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad032
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/22704
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherDigital Scholarship in the Humanitiesen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Englishen
dc.subjectdigital humanitiesen
dc.subjectShakespeareen
dc.subjectcomputational stylisticsen
dc.title'I would I had that corporal soundness': Pervez Rizvi's analysis of the Word Adjacency Network method of authorship attributionen
dc.typeArticleen

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