stylometrist

English

Etymology

stylometry +‎ -ist

Noun

stylometrist (plural stylometrists)

1. A person who uses stylometry to analyze the style and content of text.
   • 1997, Stanley E. Porter, D.A. Carson, Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures, →ISBN, page 224:

     What is to be said of the authorship of the Epistles is in the end a matter for the Scripture scholar, not the stylometrist.

   • 2010, Forgetful Muses: Reading the Author in the Text, →ISBN, page Ian Lancashire:

     For every stylometrist whose research supports an attribution, there is another who can point out weaknesses in that research and cast doubt on the claim.

   • 2011, Stephen Ramsay, Reading Machines: Toward and Algorithmic Criticism, →ISBN, page 71:

     David Hoover — a skilled stylometrist, and therefore a great lover of lists—likes to play a game with his students in which he shows them a list of novels and asks them to rank them according to “vocabulary richness” (defined as the largest number of different words per fifty-thousand-word block)

Synonyms

• stylometrician