Change of word characteristics in 20th-century Turkish literature: a statistical analysis

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dc.citation.epage190en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber3en_US
dc.citation.spage167en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber17en_US
dc.contributor.authorCan, F.en_US
dc.contributor.authorPatton, J. M.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-12T13:50:31Z
dc.date.available2018-04-12T13:50:31Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Computer Engineeringen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article provides a century-wide quantitative analysis of the Turkish literature using 40 novels of 40 authors. We divide the century into four eras or quarter-centuries; allocate 10 novels to each era, and partition each novel into equal-sized blocks. Using cross-validation-based discriminant analysis, with the most frequent words as discriminators, we achieve a classification rate with a relatively high accuracy when the novel blocks are classified according to their eras. We show that, by using statistical stylistic methods, the author gender of Turkish texts can be accurately identified. We also study the gender differences regarding the use of most frequent words. Using weighted least squares regression and a sliding window approach we show that as time passes, words, both in terms of tokens (in text) and types (in vocabulary), have become longer. The findings of this work have implications for the historical linguistic analysis of the Turkish language. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09296174.2010.485444en_US
dc.identifier.issn0929-6174
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/38195
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2010.485444en_US
dc.source.titleJournal of Quantitative Linguisticsen_US
dc.titleChange of word characteristics in 20th-century Turkish literature: a statistical analysisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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