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dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisorStronks, E.
dc.contributor.authorWinkel, T. de
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-19T17:05:28Z
dc.date.available2018-07-19T17:05:28Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/29656
dc.description.abstractThe author of one of the most important Dutch texts in Dutch (literary) history, and on top of that the oldest national anthem in the world, is yet to be determined. Researching the historical context and performing qualitative text analysis has not produced conclusive answers and put a name on the anonymously published song. I’ll try to discover the author of the Wilhelmus using quantitative analysis, and the methods and means from the computational literary studies. This involves the use of computers, performing statistical analysis on the Wilhelmus in order to determine an authorial signal, based on textual features, and combine this linguistic fingerprint with those of the other texts of my corpus, predominantly texts from possible authors of the anonymous Hymn. Previous research with these methods show very promising results but the short text size of the Wilhelmus, only 551 words, temper the expectations. I’ll test previously proposed and generally considered valid options of potential authorship of the Wilhelmus, while at the same time trying to determine if, currently, this type of research, these methods and the available tools are capable of handling such questions. This leads to the following two research questions; Who is the author of the Wilhelmus? & Can the complicated real world authorship attribution case of the Wilhelmus be solved with the methods of quantitative analysis and the tools of computational literature? While testing authorship signals, I’ve also tested other stylistic effects based on language or dialect and genre, type or topic. These effects were present in my corpus, measurable with my methods and clearly visible in my graphs. Surprisingly enough, the Wilhelmus shared very little stylistic effects with any other text from all the authors in the corpus. Attempts to draw out the text’s lingual characteristic, by varying features, culling, sampling or testing on different corpora, some including only Marnix and Coornhert texts, all failed to produce a strong, consistent and reliable attribution. When examining the nature of the failed attribution, by doubting the distance measure Burrows Delta or by analyzing the distinctive components of the Wilhelmus with a principle component analysis, I got results that are worth exploring and valid options for future research.
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
dc.format.extent1213862
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/zip
dc.language.isoen
dc.titleOf Deutsches blood
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordsWilhelmus, Authorship Attribution, non-traditional stylometry, digital humanities, text size,
dc.subject.courseuuComparative Literary Studies


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