STYLOMETRY RESEARCH:

Yulia Pyzhak

Arina Molchanova

Marianna Martirosian

 

GOOD OMENS

IDEA

NEIL GAIMAN:

 ...we also rewrote and footnoted each other's bits as we went along, and rolled up our sleeves to take the first draft to the second (quite a lot of words), and, by the end of it, neither of us was entirely certain who had written what

the

IDEA

TERRY PRATCHETT:

I can say that I wrote a bit over two thirds of Good Omens.

 Initially, I did most of Adam and the Them and Neil did most of the Four Horsemen, and everything else kind of got done by whoever – by the end, large sections were being done by a composite creature called Terryandneil, whoever was actually hitting the keys.

the

GOAL

is to either confirm or deny Pratchett's words on authorship by determining which parts of the book were written by Pratchett, and which by Gaiman

the

data

NEIL GAIMAN:

  • Neverwhere (1996)
  • Stardust (1999)
  • American Gods (2001)
  • The Graveyard Book (2008)
  • Anasi Boys (2005)
  • Coraline (2002)

TERRY PRATCHETT:

  • Wyrd Sisters (1988)
  • Guards! Guards! (1989)
  • Moving Pictures (1990)
  • Lord And Ladies (1992)
  • Sourcery (1988)
  • Mort (1987)

Good Omens (1990)

methods

  • Cluster Analysis
  • Consensus Tree
  • rolling.classify()
  • Voyant Tools

GAIMAN VS. PRATCHETT

GAIMAN VS. PRATCHETT

results

results

verifying

(kinda)

verifying

(kinda)

verifying

(kinda)

conclusion

Indeed, the majority of the book is written by Terry Pratchett, and the parts that are supposedly written by Neil Gaiman correspond with those that are about four horsemen,    just as Terry Pratchett claimed.

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