Stylometric network
Visualize the network of stylometric relations for the 3,000 works in the corpus
The project ETSO: Stylometry Applied to Golden Age Theatre arises from the interest of researcher Álvaro Cuéllar (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and professor Germán Vega García-Luengos (University of Valladolid) in applying new computational tools to the many authorship problems posed by Spanish Golden Age theatre. This portal aims to offer analyses that can shed light on attributions across the vast theatrical production of the Golden Age. Thanks to stylometry, one of its most useful functions allows us to identify which works have lexical frequencies closest to those of the text under study within the available corpus. Each author uses words in different proportions, so works tend to be related according to their authorship. Nevertheless, we must always be cautious about other relationships that may arise because of literary genre, subject matter, dating, source, textual state, and other factors.
Here you can consult examples in which stylometry confirms the traditional attribution, such as en La dama boba, Don Gil de las calzas verdes o El médico de su honra, and also cases in which stylometry points to an unexpected and potentially illuminating authorship, such as La francesa Laura, La monja alférez o La puerta Macarena (primera parte). We must bear in mind that the new attributions indicated here are merely authorship clues produced automatically by the computational process. All cases must be studied in detail from a philological perspective, taking into account their particular complexities.
Digital humanities
Stylometry, Artificial Intelligence, automatic transcription (HTR)...
At ETSO we use different computational techniques that allow us to work with texts as never before possible.
Thanks to Stylo (Maciej Eder, Jan Rybicki y Mike Kestemont) we can relate texts through their lexical usage.
Transkribus (P. Kahle, S. Colutto, G. Hackl y G. Mühlberger) allows us to transcribe and modernize old printed books and manuscripts automatically with a high degree of accuracy.
We also use other stylometric and artificial-intelligence techniques to process texts.
TEXORO: Golden Age Texts
Text searches across 3,000 Golden Age plays
TEXORO is a textual search platform that allows users to search a large corpus of Golden Age works in a unified way. The resource brings together nearly 3,000 texts, with more than 38 million indexed words and works by more than 400 authors, and offers several ways to explore Golden Age literary heritage through lexical, textual, and documentary criteria.
The search engine can locate words, exact phrases, and wildcard patterns, and it also supports advanced queries that combine terms, proximity conditions, and filters by title, genre, traditional attribution, stylometric attribution, or text status. In this way, TEXORO supports both targeted searches and more complex explorations of the presence, distribution, and relationship of words or expressions across the corpus.
BITESO
Open-access digital Golden Age texts
BITESO brings together and provides open access to a broad collection of Golden Age digital texts. The resource largely stems from automatic transcriptions of printed books and manuscripts produced for stylometric authorship analyses, together with materials reviewed, provided, or checked through collaboration with specialists. Its aim is to offer the community a simple access point to texts that in many cases remained inside old documents that were difficult to handle or read.
The texts included in BITESO are not intended to replace critical editions and do not always have the same editorial quality. In their current state, they do not include character names or stage directions, but only the clean verse text of each work. Even so, they are useful materials for reading, consultation, teaching, philological research, and computational exploration of Golden Age literary heritage. This resource seeks to encourage open circulation of these materials and enable new forms of access to Golden Age theatre and literature.
How can we help you? How can you help us?
We can help you explore the different resources available for the study of Golden Age theatre and literature. In the Authorship exam you can consult stylometric reports for the works included in the corpus, with clues about possible authorship relations. TEXORO enables text searches across nearly 3,000 works and more than 38 million words, with options for locating words, phrases, patterns, term combinations, and proximity relations. BITESO offers open access to digital texts derived largely from automatic transcriptions of printed books and manuscripts. Automatic summaries also provide an initial orientation to the plot and contents of the works, always as a first aid and not as a substitute for reading or philological analysis.
You can also collaborate with us by sending Golden Age texts that are not yet included in our resources, bibliographic information, attribution news, data on witnesses, or any material that can improve the whole. The collaboration of researchers, teachers, and specialists is essential for continuing to expand, review, and correct the available information. If you find errors, typos, textual problems, issues in the automatic summaries, or data that could be refined, we would be grateful if you sent us correction suggestions. Citing our resources in publications, academic work, or teaching activities also helps us disseminate the project and obtain the support needed to maintain and expand it.
