Seminar: "Applications of Finite Mixture Modeling in Stylometry"

Stylometry is the area of linguistics that deals with the quantification of a language style. Applications of stylometry can be found in plagiarism detection, authorship identification, speech style recognition, association analysis of text samples, as well as the prediction of the chronological order for several written fragments. Among the most typical statistics techniques used in the stylometry analysis are the goodness-of-fit test, analysis of contingency tables, paired t-test, and other traditional but sometimes overly naive and simplistic procedures. The main focus of the talk will be made on the detection of the chronological order of several text fragments written by Plato. Dr. Volodymyr Melnykov, Professor of Applied Statistics, Department of Information Systems, Statistics, & Management Science, University of Alabama will be the speaker.