Mosteller and Wallace

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djgalvin@gmail.com - 24 Feb 2010 14:30 GMT

Can anyone recommend a modern text, at a level suitable for an
undergraduate economics major, that describes the sort of textual
analysis that Mosteller and Wallace did of the Federalists papers in
the 1960's? (Given a text with two possible authors, and information
about their typical use of certain key words and phrases, determining
which of the two is more likely to be the author).

Many thanks,

David Galvin,
Notre Dame Dept.of Mathematics

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tchow@lsa.umich.edu - 26 Feb 2010 17:00 GMT

>Can anyone recommend a modern text, at a level suitable for an
>undergraduate economics major, that describes the sort of textual
>analysis that Mosteller and Wallace did of the Federalists papers in
>the 1960's?

I don't have a specific recommendation, but you might want to check out
the list of references in the following paper by Koppel, Schler, and
Argamon ("Computational methods in authorship attribution"):

http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/authorship-JASIST-final.pdf

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Mosteller and Wallace