stylometrist
English
Etymology
stylometry + -ist
Noun
stylometrist (plural stylometrists)
- A person who uses stylometry to analyze the style and content of text.
- 1997, Stanley E. Porter & D.A. Carson, Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures, →ISBN, page 224:
- What is to be said of the authorship of the Epistles is in the end a matter for the Scripture scholar, not the stylometrist.
- 2010, Forgetful Muses: Reading the Author in the Text, →ISBN, page Ian Lancashire:
- For every stylometrist whose research supports an attribution, there is another who can point out weaknesses in that research and cast doubt on the claim.
- 2011, Stephen Ramsay, Reading Machines: Toward and Algorithmic Criticism, →ISBN, page 71:
- David Hoover — a skilled stylometrist, and therefore a great lover of lists—likes to play a game with his students in which he shows them a list of novels and asks them to rank them according to “vocabulary richness” (defined as the largest number of different words per fifty-thousand-word block)
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Synonyms
- stylometrician