A Response to Rosalind Barber's Critique of the Word Adjacency Method for Authorship Attribution

• Published in: ANQ (Lexington, Ky.) Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 291 - 296
• Main Authors: Segarra, Santiago, Eisen, Mark, Egan, Gabriel, Ribeiro, Alejandro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Routledge 02.10.2021; Taylor & Francis Inc
• Subjects: Authorship; Auxiliary verbs; Conjunctions; Content words; English language; Function words; Inflection (Morphology); Language; Prepositions; Word meaning; Writers

The Word Adjacency Network (WAN) method of authorship attribution was introduced in a series of papers by the present authors between 2015 and 2018. Here, Segarra et al offer a response to the second critique and will attempt to show that Barber repeats several fallacies from Rizvi's critique t...