Armenian Stylometry Dataset

This repository contains the dataset used in the stylometric study, presentend à Digital Humanities 2025 Conference (Lisbon).

Whose Pen Wrote the Map? Battling Over the Armenian Medieval Text Ashkharhatsuyts with Stylometry
Jean-Baptiste Camps & Chahan Vidal-Gorène
HAL ID: hal-05062055v1 — DH 2025, Lisbon

Repository Contents

• data/ — Normalized Classical Armenian texts grouped by author:
  • Anania Shirakatsi
  • Movses Khorenatsi
  • Eghishe
  • Ghazar Parpetsi
• archive_data-digilib/ — Source texts, from Digilib or OCR (Calfa)
• armenian-words_feats.json — Extracted feature list (e.g., function words)
• list_words/ — Stopword and function word lists for stylometric analysis

Purpose

This dataset supports authorship attribution analysis of the Ashkharhatsuyts, a medieval Armenian geographic treatise traditionally attributed either to Movses Khorenatsi or Anania Shirakatsi. The corpus was normalized, cleaned, and sampled to allow machine learning models (e.g. SVM) to distinguish authorship through function word usage and stylometric markers (see paper)

Citation

If you use this dataset or the study, please cite the following publication:

@inproceedings{camps:hal-05062055,
  TITLE = {{Whose Pen Wrote the Map? Battling Over the Armenian Medieval Text Ashkharhatsuyts with Stylometry}},
  AUTHOR = {Camps, Jean-Baptiste and Vidal-Gor{\`e}ne, Chahan},
  URL = {https://enc.hal.science/hal-05062055},
  BOOKTITLE = {{DH 2025 Book of Abstracts}},
  ADDRESS = {Lisbon, Portugal},
  ORGANIZATION = {{ADHO}},
  YEAR = {2025},
  MONTH = Jul,
  KEYWORDS = {Computational human sciences ; Stylometry ; Classical Armenian ; Authorship Attribution},
  PDF = {https://enc.hal.science/hal-05062055v1/file/DH_2025_Moses-11.pdf},
  HAL_ID = {hal-05062055},
  HAL_VERSION = {v1},
}