Inter-Textual Distance and Authorship Attribution Corneille and Molière
Cyril Labbé, Dominique Labbé · Journal of Quantitative Linguistics · 2001
The calculation proposed in this paper measures neighbourhood between several texts. It leads to a normalized metric and a distance scale which can be used for authorship attribution. An experiment is presented on one of the famous cases in French literature: Corneille and Molière. The calculation clearly makes the difference between the two works but it also demonstrates that Corneille contributed to many of Molière’s masterpieces.