Let’s LIWC at The Riddle from a slightly different perspective…

The Riddle is in its final phase. In the next two years, much of the experiments that have been done will be reported on in one more PhD-thesis, scholarly articles and in a book for all those who enjoy reading and may even have participated in our National Reader Survey in 2013. One of the things still on our to do list was applying stylometric tools with the knowledge we gained concerning the literary conventions of contemporary novels on older fiction. In April 2017, Floor Naber has started a short stint at Huygens ING’s Riddle Team to do an experiment with LIWC. She will use the software Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count on the Riddle corpus and on a corpus of late nineteenth-century Dutch novels to test whether old and new compare or where they differ.

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