The Authorship of the Disputed Federalist Papers with an Annotated Corpus.

The present paper discusses the potentials of annotated corpora in authorship attribution studies. These corpora allow the retrieval of morpho-syntactic information, which may serve as stylistic features, getting beyond the most common word-based approaches. In itself, annotation is meant to contain the structural mark-up, the lemmatization, the part-of-speech mark-up, and the textual reference. For the purpose, the corpus of the Federalist Papers is tested to explore Burrows's Delta from a twofold perspective, lemma-based Delta and POS-based Delta. The experiments come to demonstrate the validity of these approaches for authorial attribution with the finding of empirical evidence to assign, in the majority of cases, the hand responsible for the disputed Federalist Papers, but for paper 55, traditionally considered less Madisonian in the relevant literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]