%0 Journal Article
%T The Disputed Authorship of a Medieval Text: A New Solution to the Attribution Problem in the Case of Guillaume DˇŻAngleterre
%A Maria Slautina
%J Authorship
%D 2012
%I Ghent University
%X This paper presents a case of disputed authorship concerning a literary medieval text, the Old French romance Guillaume dˇŻAngleterre, and describes a new attempt to use the mathematical method of authorship attribution called the "method of pattern recognitionˇ±. After presenting an overview of previous approaches to the problem of the authorship of this text, I argue for the advantages of a statistical syntactic based method for authorship attribution of medieval texts. The method of pattern recognition consists in the identification of a domain of syntactic parameters and a measurement of the proximity or distance of texts as located in a multi-dimensional syntactic space. I find that the medieval text most likely belongs to Chr¨¦tien de Troyes, one of the most famous French authors of the twelfth century. I present for the first time an attempt to apply the method of pattern recognition to determine the authorship of a medieval text written in Old French.
%K authorship
%K chr¨¦tien de troyes
%K medieval French romance
%K guillaume d'angleterre
%K computational approaches to authorship attribution
%K pattern recognition
%U http://ojs.ugent.be/authorship/article/view/760/749