Beyond Delta: Introducing an Angle Metric for Stylometric Similarity
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This article evaluates stylometric distance metrics, including established (Burrows's Delta) and lesser-known methods (Argamon's Delta, Cosine Delta, Minkowski metrics). It introduces a novel angle-based method that compares word vectors in n-dimensional space using original relative frequencies, eliminating the need for a reference corpus or z-score transformation. The proposed approach shows promise for assessing stylistic similarity, even in short texts.
