The genes of genre: Classifying literary text types using statistical modelling KU Leuven
This project automatically extracts literary text types in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Dead Sea Scrolls using quantitative linguistic methods. Its main objective is to critically assess scholarly understandings of genre by explicitly modelling the linguistic dimensions of genre, one of its constitutive elements that resists exhaustive manual quantification. To date, genre typologies are scholarly constructs depending on ...