Department or Program
Asian Studies
Abstract
Li Qingzhao is one of China’s most famous pre-modern female poets. She is said to have read and composed thousands of poems. However, today, her entire anthology only contains less than one hundred separate works and many of these poems entered her collection several hundred years after her death. There is good reason to speculate that some of the works attributed to Li Qingzhao were written by people imitating her work. This thesis explores the authorship of Li Qingzhao’s anthology by using computational techniques and discusses their implications and significance. Some of the computational devices include bag of words and other similarity finding techniques. Although many of these tests are interesting, there are many limitations and issues with using these to explore authorship. The goal of this thesis is to explore computation's role in authorship determination, and the significance of that authorship.
Level of Access
Open Access
First Advisor
Ling, Chao
Date of Graduation
5-2021
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Recommended Citation
Simmons, Richard Tyler, "Authorship Identification of Li Qingzhao’s Anthology: A Computational Approach" (2021). Honors Theses. 356.
https://scarab.bates.edu/honorstheses/356
Number of Pages
83
Components of Thesis
2 pdf, 4 .xlxs
Open Access
Available to all.