Re: Stylometry

Here (here being at the bottom of the message :) is the code for the stylometry
program. Note that I specified that the stylometry also involved a calculator
-- that's because the shell script only processes your data to get the numbers
you need out; the tough part is still up to you. 

After it runs, you have 

A. a file, ./counts, containing wordcounts like so. (The first line is the
ever-present quirk, which occurs because I have yet to master sed.)

1689 
 550 THE
 344 AND
 316 TO
...

and B. Output to the screen, like so:

[wc/uwc]
      1738     12561     77775 <-- Lines/words/bytes for the original file
      2557      5113     31226 <-- First part is the number of *different*
                                   words used in the document, ignore the rest.
[word counts] <-- A juicy excerpt from the counts file
 550 THE
 344 AND
 316 TO
 271 A
 195 OF
[punc frequency: comma/period/hyphen/quote/semi]
584 <-- Number of commas
1536 <-- Periods
79 <-- Dashes
315 <-- Double-quote marks
10 <-- Semicolons
[and/or/but as sentence-splitters]
24 <-- Occurrences of "and," (including comma -- that's the point)
12 <-- "or,"
7 <-- "but,"

There are too many things you can calculate from this output for me to
enumerate (although the ratios of words to periods, commas, semicolons, and
conjunctions as sentence splitters are rather useful...compare two or three of
a known author's documents to find his/her characteristics, then compare that 
to your unknown and see if you've got a match). 

[Note that the whole sed mess is supposed to be one line]

#!/bin/sh
# prep: Prepares a text for analysis

sed "y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/;s/[^A-Z']/ /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;s/  / /g;y/ /\n/;"<$1|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn>./counts

echo [wc/uwc]
wc<$1
wc<./counts
echo [word counts]
grep -wie "the" -e "and" -e "to" -e "a" -e "of" < counts
echo [punc frequency: comma/period/hyphen/quote/semi]
grep -c ","<$1
grep -c "."<$1
grep -c "-"<$1
grep -c \"<$1
grep -c "\;"<$1
echo [and/or/but as sentence-splitters]
grep -c "and,"<$1
grep -c "or,"<$1
grep -c "but,"<$1

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Randall Farmer
    rfarmer@hiwaay.net
    http://hiwaay.net/~rfarmer

There was a significant glitch in the version of the stylometry aid I
posted...read on if you care. 

Also, does anyone know where I can find some *real* stylometry programs (i.e.,
ones that do the math, etc.)? 

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I added the conjunctions-as-sentence-splitters after originally writing the
message with the program in it, and messed it up while updating the message to
match. Once you change this, it should catch most of the intended conjunctions
(not all of them -- specifically, not the ones with the comma on a different
line from the conjunction). 

> echo [and/or/but as sentence-splitters]
> grep -c "and,"<$1
          ^^^^^^
Should be ", and"

> grep -c "or,"<$1
          ^^^^^
Should be ", or"

> grep -c "but,"<$1
          ^^^^^^
Should be ", but"

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Randall Farmer
    rfarmer@hiwaay.net
    http://hiwaay.net/~rfarmer