Maciej Eder – CUDAN Lecture

When: 2025-04-28 16:00-18:00 (Tallinn time)
Where: A108 & online

The event is public via zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/94629959885?pwd=2NktNsXm0SzbzwwmfGbqlk5UZQoARw.1
Meeting ID: 946 2995 9885 Passcode: 007238

Speaker

Maciej Eder
Director, Institute of Polish Language at the Polish Academy of Sciences,
Associate Professor, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland

Lecture title
Computational Literary Studies: A gentle introduction

Abstract
The talk will revolve around text analysis methodology, and the question of measuring stylistic similarity between (literary) texts. Since similarity is one of the core concepts in authorship attribution, which is traditionally aimed at identifying the works that are stylistically similar to an anonymous text in question, the same idea can be easily adopted to assess any set of texts, even an entire literary tradition at a time. Consequently, instead of looking for authorship, such an analysis is aimed at tracing other stylistic/linguistic signals: genre, gender, chronology, intertextuality, and so forth. The presentation will focus on some of these applications, with special attention paid to reliability issues.

Website
https://maciejeder.org/