方法对比

	Authorship Attribution of Canonical Texts	Variant Collation and CBGM
领域	Religious Studies	Religious Studies
方法族	Machine learning	Process / pipeline
起源年份	2019	2004
提出者	Tradition from Mosteller & Wallace and A. Q. Morton; Pauline corpus revisited by Jacques Savoy	Gerd Mink (Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung, Münster)
类型	Classification/verification pipeline assigning disputed texts to candidate authors	Coherence-based pipeline for genealogy in contaminated traditions
开创性文献	Savoy, J. (2019). Authorship of Pauline epistles revisited. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(10), 1089-1097.	Mink, G. (2004). Problems of a highly contaminated tradition: the New Testament. Stemmata of variants as a source of a genealogy for witnesses. In P. van Reenen, A. den Hollander, & M. van Mulken (Eds.), Studies in Stemmatology II (pp. 13-85). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN: 9789027232229
别名	Computational Authorship Attribution, Authorship Verification of Scripture, Pauline Authorship Analysis, Disputed-Text Attribution	Coherence-Based Genealogical Method, CBGM, Apparatus Criticus Construction, Genealogical Coherence Analysis
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摘要	Authorship attribution of canonical texts uses computational stylometry to test who wrote disputed sacred and classical writings, most famously the letters attributed to Paul. Several New Testament epistles bear Paul's name but have long been suspected, on historical and stylistic grounds, of coming from later hands; stylometry brings quantitative evidence to the question. The approach profiles each author's style from large numbers of features, especially function-word frequencies, and either classifies a disputed text to the closest candidate or verifies whether it could plausibly belong to a claimed author against a field of impostors. Jacques Savoy's 2019 study revisited the entire Pauline corpus with modern methods, including Burrows's Delta, and found that it clusters into groups consistent with the traditional distinction between undisputed and disputed letters.	Variant collation and the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM), developed by Gerd Mink at the Institute for New Testament Textual Research in Münster, address the central obstacle to editing the Greek New Testament: contamination. Because medieval scribes routinely copied from several exemplars at once, the New Testament tradition is too intermixed for a classical bifurcating stemma. Mink's solution, set out in his 2004 chapter in Studies in Stemmatology II, shifts the unit of analysis from whole manuscripts to individual variation passages. At each passage the editor decides which reading gave rise to which (a local stemma), and the method then aggregates these local decisions, using the coherence of agreement among witnesses, to infer the global flow of text and the relationships among witnesses. CBGM now underlies the Editio Critica Maior and the modern Nestle-Aland and UBS Greek New Testaments.