Třikrát o autorství
Three times about the authorship

Author(s): Barbora Anna Janečková, Anna Tichá, Jan Fiedler
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Computational linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Philology
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: written texts; textual criticism; forensic linguistics; authorship; medieval manuscripts; Internet communication
Summary/Abstract: From a mysterious text from the 15th century through authorship attribution in internet communication to the analysis of prefixes in forensic linguistics. That is Thrice About Authorship – a book of three student works that combines forensic linguistics and the search for the origin and authors of texts. The first part discusses the methods used to determine the origin of the Voynich Manuscript – a mysterious text written in an unknown script. The second part seeks to say whether it is possible to distinguish the authors of comments from news servers, using methods that enumerate selected linguistic features. The third part also falls into the field of forensic linguistics – it examines the possibility of using the frequency of prefixes to differentiate text writers.

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