Literary DNA tools and services have a wide range of applications, including academic and professional research, as well as commercial uses. We list some application examples below:
- Stylometric analysis
- Authorship analysis
- Forensic linguistics
- Deception, plagiarism detection
- ACADEMIC RESEARCH and TEACHING analysis of corpora and authors’ style patterns, influences between authors, similarities and differences according to
- authors’ time period, geographical origin, education, gender, religion, etc.
- corpora’s genre, type (e.g. novels, movie scripts, essays, newscast, theater plays, sacred and apocryphal texts, etc.)
- EDITORS, PUBLISHERS, PROOF READERS identifying style patterns in corpora and authors to determine or foresee
- readers’ preferences and level of interest
- market acceptance and commercial success
- impact of translation in corpora style and commercial metrics
- single or multiple authorship determination
- authors’ categorisation in comparison with other authors for whom AL-DNAs is known
- proof reading and quick categorisation of new books or unknown writers
- WRITERS Identifying style patterns, similarities and differences of works with respect to
- other writers who have a suspected or known influence on their writing style
- better understanding the intensity, nature and scope of other author’s influence on their own works
- getting graphical representations of their own Author Literary DNA (AL-DNA) and of any other authors they are interested in
- MEDICAL identifying corpora style patterns, similarities and differences related to
- verbal and written expression of patients
- language and speech command impairments
- neurolinguistics
- LEGAL Identifying deception, fraud or plagiarism in texts with legal consecuences
- police reports
- medical claims
- authorship authentication of suspected criminal text messages (e.g. letters, messages in digital media, et.)
