Authenticating the writings of Julius Caesar

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Highlights:

• We shed new light on the authenticity of the writings of Julius Caesar.

• Hirtius, one of Caesar’s generals, must have contributed to Caesar’s writings.

• We benchmark two authorship verification systems on publicly available data sets.

• We test on both modern data sets, and Latin texts from Antiquity.

• We show how computational methods inform traditional authentication studies.

摘要

•We shed new light on the authenticity of the writings of Julius Caesar.•Hirtius, one of Caesar’s generals, must have contributed to Caesar’s writings.•We benchmark two authorship verification systems on publicly available data sets.•We test on both modern data sets, and Latin texts from Antiquity.•We show how computational methods inform traditional authentication studies.

论文关键词:Authentication,Authorship verification,Stylometry,Julius Caesar

论文评审过程:Received 10 March 2016, Revised 27 May 2016, Accepted 14 June 2016, Available online 23 June 2016, Version of Record 2 July 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.06.029