Yasunari Kawabata was a famous Japanese novelist and the winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature. However, considerable debate has persisted concerning the authorship of one of his novels, The Sound of the Mount...Yasunari Kawabata was a famous Japanese novelist and the winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature. However, considerable debate has persisted concerning the authorship of one of his novels, The Sound of the Mountain, with some claiming that it was in fact written by another celebrated author, Yukio Mishima. In this research, we attempt to resolve this issue by applying character bigrams, part-of-speech bigrams, and phrase patterns as stylometric features, and principal component analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis, and random forests as authorship attribution methods. As a result, we obtained compelling evidence to show that Yukio Mishima was not the author of The Sound of the Mountain.展开更多
文摘Yasunari Kawabata was a famous Japanese novelist and the winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature. However, considerable debate has persisted concerning the authorship of one of his novels, The Sound of the Mountain, with some claiming that it was in fact written by another celebrated author, Yukio Mishima. In this research, we attempt to resolve this issue by applying character bigrams, part-of-speech bigrams, and phrase patterns as stylometric features, and principal component analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis, and random forests as authorship attribution methods. As a result, we obtained compelling evidence to show that Yukio Mishima was not the author of The Sound of the Mountain.
