Re: VMs: Gordon Rugg's study follow ups

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rene Zandbergen wrote:

> Some examples
> have been presented which are only very superficially
> similar to the VMs text.
This  raises an interesting  question: is there a good way to measure 
the similarity of texts objectively?

(I realize that calculation of entropy is one such test, but a broad one 
to be sure.)

I have seen a couple of books which applied "stylometric" techniques to 
New Testament Greek texts, for example, by comparing the relative 
frequencies of synonyms, but these techniques don't appear too useful 
for a text whose meaning is unknown.

Bruce


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