Applications

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.)