Leveraging Part-of-Speech Tagging for Enhanced Stylometry of Latin Literature
Sarah Chen, Patrick Burns, Thomas J. Bolt, Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Joseph P. Dexter · 2024
In literary critical applications, stylometry can benefit from hand-curated feature sets capturing various syntactic and rhetorical functions.For premodern languages, calculation of such features is hampered by a lack of computational resources for accurate part-of-speech tagging and semantic disambiguation.This paper reports an evaluation of POS taggers for Latin and their use in augmenting a hand-curated stylometric feature set.Our analyses show that POS-augmented features not only provide more accurate counts but also perform well on tasks such as genre classification.In the course of this work, we introduce POS n-grams as a feature for Latin stylometry.