Abstract Language and literary studies have studied style for centuries, and even since the
advent of› stylistics‹ as a discipline at the beginning of the twentieth century, definitions of› …

The digital era has not only given us the world of big data, but the tools to deal with this
mostly unstructured, mostly textual data: Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools. Yet …

We study perceptions of literariness in a set of contemporary Dutch novels. Experiments with
machine learning models show that it is possible to automatically distinguish novels that are …

This thesis applies the Data-Oriented Parsing framework in two areas: parsing & literature.
The data-oriented approach rests on the assumption that re-use of chunks of training data …

SPOD is a tool for Dutch syntax in which a given corpus is analysed according to a large
number of predefined syntactic characteristics. SPOD is an extension of the PaQu (” Parse …

What is the secret to writing popular novels? The issue is an intriguing one among
researchers from various fields. The goal of this study is to identify the linguistic features of …

Attentiveness to physical appearance is seen as an important motif in chick lit. However, this
has never been researched in an actual comparison with literary novels. Our goal is to make …

What is literature? Can we measure 'literariness' in texts themselves? The innovative
Computational Humanities project The Riddle of Literary Quality asked thousands of Dutch …

Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore is the first monograph devoted to
Moore's poetry. The focus of the book is on Moore's poetry and differing formulations of …

In this paper, 32 books by the Swedish writer Henning Mankell were investigated using
stylometric methods, to find out whether his style varies in different genres, if his style …