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Record W4206968188 · doi:10.33137/rr.v44i3.37992

Stylometry without Words: Analyzing John Milton’s Grammatical Style

2022· article· en· W4206968188 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Harvey Quamen

Bibliographic record

VenueRenaissance and Reformation · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDigital Humanities and Scholarship
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPunctuationStyle (visual arts)OrthographyStylometryGrammarLinguisticsSyntaxUnconscious mindWord grammarSimple (philosophy)Word (group theory)Computer scienceLiteratureArtPhilosophyEmergent grammarRelational grammarEpistemology

Abstract

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In this article, Harvey Quamen investigates the structures—syntax, grammar, unconscious multilingualisms, hypotaxis, parataxis, punctuation, orthography, archaic words and spellings, ambiguous antecedents, and even simple errors—that support Milton’s language. Quamen demonstrates how contemporary computational methods can go beyond word frequency counts to assist us in learning more about Milton’s literary style, while showing us that the history of computational analysis in Milton studies is surprisingly long. He is meticulous in the methodology he uses, which he describes clearly and carefully in this article; and he concludes with a series of recommendations designed to align the interests of textual scholars and digital humanists.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.946
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.208 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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