Document - The Epistle to Cangrande through the Lens of computational authorship verification

2019

Conference article Open Access

The Epistle to Cangrande through the Lens of computational authorship verification

Corbara S.

Machine learning Authorship Verification Digital humanities Dante Alighieri Medieval Latin

The Epistle to Cangrande is one of the most debated documents in the production of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. For more than a hundred years scholars have been debating over its real paternity, whether it should be considered a work by Dante or a malicious forgery by an unnamed author. In this work, we try to address this philological problem through the methodologies of computational authorship verification and machine learning, by training a classifier on a dataset of medieval Latin prose texts and by using a set of authorship-related features. Although the project is still in a preliminary phase, the early results seem to confirm the hypothesis of a forgery.

Source: FDIA 2019 - 9th PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access co-located with 12th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2019), pp. 29–35, Milan, Italy, July 17-18, 2019

Back to previous page

Cite as

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:442379,
	title = {The Epistle to Cangrande through the Lens of computational authorship verification},
	author = {Corbara S.},
	booktitle = {FDIA 2019 - 9th PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access co-located with 12th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2019), pp. 29–35, Milan, Italy, July 17-18, 2019},
	year = {2019}
}