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A Computational Model of Genre

By Allyn Waller

Genre is a bit of a puzzle; it is generally agreed that certain authors and works can be grouped together, and the groupings of ancient texts into genres are not generally contentious, but a single, definitive definition of genre remains elusive. This paper presents a computational model of genre based on shared, co-occurring vocabulary as a complementary approach to genre. Using Greek historiography as an example, this paper argues that there is a strong, direct link between vocabulary and genre, and that a model based on vocabulary is useful for investigating issues of genre.

Semantic Intertextual Search with Latin Word-Embedding Models

By Joseph P. Dexter and Pramit Chaudhuri

This paper describes optimization of a computational method for representing semantic information in Latin texts and application of the method to identifying intertextual relationships of literary significance.