This recorded presentation (DH‑LAB, n.d.) outlines the application of stylometric authorship attribution to Seychellois Creole, using the technique as a framework for investigating a marginal, under‑documented language. It reviews prior attribution cases (e.g., Yola, Minongo, Ariel) and argues that, despite Creoles’ reduced lexical and syntactic complexity, stylometric methods remain language‑independent, though limited corpora constrain feature‑space size. The talk also describes the linguistic characteristics of Creole continua that influence the feasibility of authorship profiling in this context.
Bears on: authorship & stylometry · concepts & methods