stylometry

A package to perform stylometry operations on given texts. The package includes implementations of Mendenhall's graphing of word lengths, the Kilgariff chi-squared algorithm, and an algorithm to find words that occur in only one text out of two being compared (hapax legomena).

How to Use

The main functions in the package can be called like so:

use stylometry::mendenhall_file;
// or, if graphing a string rather than reading from a file: use stylometry::mendenhall_string;

mendenhall("path/to/file.txt"); // this will output a .png of a line graph of the text's word lengths

use stylometry::scatterplot;
// or, if graphing a string rather than reading from a file: use stylometry::mendenhall_string;

scatterplot("path/to/file.txt"); // this will output a .png showing a scatterplot of the text's word lengths, similar to the line graph in the mendenhall function

use stylometry::kilgariff;

kilgariff("path/to/file1_known_author.txt", "path/to/file2_disputed_author.txt"); // this will print the result of the Kilgariff chi-squared formula for texts you're comparing

use stylometry::hapax;

hapax("path/to/file1.txt", "path/to/file2.txt"); // this will return a vec of words only found in file1 (and which only occur once in that file)

use stylometry::hapax_single;

hapax("path/to/file1.txt"); // this will return a vec of words only occurring once in file1

You can also get a vec containing tuples of word lengths and how often they occur (e.g., (4, 15) would show that four-letter words occur fifteen times) using the following function:

use stylometry::unique_and_total;

unique_and_total("path/to/file1.txt");