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Originally Posted by kennyc
And what the researchers discovered was that by applying statistical analysis and pattern matching techniques to literature written by these authors, they were able to identify unique literary "fingerprints" of each author......
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This is really old stuff. I first heard about this type of literary analysis some time in the 1980s. Really. There have been dozens of projects that seek to identify or appraise books by studying the author's "fingerprint" in this way.
Admittedly, the hardware and software are much more powerful now, and so no doubt does a better job of it. But it's hardly new technology.