Resources
Materials prepared by the Group. (More to be added soon...).
Corpora
The following selection of links is but a tip of an iceberg when it comes to the corpora (text collections) suitable for text analysis. The corpora listed below, however, are compiled by the members of CSG, and checked for compatibility with commonly known stylometric software.
- A Small Collection of British Fiction
- 100 Polish Novels
- 100 English Novels
- 68 German Novels
- 100 Russian Novels
- Latin New Testament
- Roman de la Rose, to play with the Rolling Classify method
Documentation of the package ‘stylo’
- for (real) beginners: a crush introduction in the form of a slideshow
- for (sort of) beginners: a concise HOWTO
- for advanced users: a paper in R Journal
- full documentation at CRAN
Blog posts on non-obvious functions of the package ‘stylo’:
- Performance measures in supervised classification
- Using the function
stylo()in batch mode - Authorship verification with the package ‘stylo’
- Cross-validation using the function
classify() - Custom distance measures
- Testing rolling stylometry
- Using ‘stylo’ with languages other than English
- Performance measures in supervised classification
Video introductions
- Introduction to the package ‘stylo’: first steps
- Introduction to the package ‘stylo’: installation
- Introduction to the package ‘stylo’: basic parameters
Publications
A list of relevant publications by the CSG members can be found on this website, on the subpage ‘publications‘. However, a comprehensive Stylometry Bibliography, curated by Christof Schöch, is definitely a place to consult before starting any experiment in text analysis.
Learn with us
The members of the group regularly conduct invited workshops at various places of the world, including yearly course offerings at Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) in Victoria BC and The European Summer University in Digital Humanities (ESUDH) in Leipzig. Below we aim to list some upcoming events:
2024 major workshops
- 15–26 July European Summer University in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology” in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Taught by Artjoms Šeļa and Jeremi Ochab.
- 10–14 June Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria BC, Canada. Week 2, taught by Joanna Byszuk and Jeremi Ochab.
- 3–7 June Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria BC, Canada. Week 1, taught by Maciej Eder.
2023 major workshops
- 4–8 Sept IQLA-GIAT Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data in Padua, Italy. Taught by Joanna Byszuk.
- 5–9 June Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria BC, Canada. Taught by Maciej Eder.
- 10–12 May CLS INFRA Training School in Madrid, at UNED. Taught by Joanna Byszuk and Artjoms Šeļa.
2022 major workshops
- 2–12 Aug European Summer University in Digital Humanities in Leipzig, Germany. Taught by Maciej Eder and Jeremi K. Ochab.
- 22–24 March COST Action Winter School in Belgrade. Taught (remotely) by Joanna Byszuk, Artjoms Šeļa and Maciej Eder.
2021 major workshops
- 3–13 Aug European Summer University in Digital Humanities in Leipzig, Germany. Taught (remotely) by Maciej Eder and Jeremi K. Ochab.
- 26–30 July IQLA-GIAT Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data in Padua, Italy. Taught (remotely) by Maciej Eder.
- 14–18 July Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria BC, Canada. Taught (remotely) by Joanna Byszuk, Artjoms Šeļa and Maciej Eder.
2020 major workshops
- 1–3 July Stylometry and Arabic Sources, in London, at Aga Khan University. Taught (remotely) by Maciej Eder.
28 Jul – 7 Aug European Summer University in Digital Humanities in Leipzig, Germany. Taught by Maciej Eder and Jeremi K. Ochab.Postponed to 2021.15–19 June DHSI Atlantic in Cork, Ireland. Taught by Jan Rybicki.Cancelled.8–12 June Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria BC, Canada. Taught by Maciej Eder and Joanna Byszuk.Postponed to 2021.
2019 major workshops
- 9–13 Sep IQLA-GIAT Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data in Padua, Italy. Taught by Maciej Eder and Jan Rybicki.
- 23 Jul – 2 Aug The European Summer University in Digital Humanities in Leipzig, Germany. Taught by Maciej Eder and Jeremi K. Ochab.
- 10–14 June Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria BC, Canada. Taught by Maciej Eder and Joanna Byszuk.
- 3–5 May Stylometry at DHI Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon. Taught by Jan Rybicki.
- 28 Feb – 1 Mar Style/Content – Literary Modeling in Stockholm, Sweden. Taught by Jan Rybicki.