TY - GEN

T1 - Analytical Distribution Model for Syntactic Variables Average Values in Russian literary Texts

AU - Martynenko, Gregory

AU - Sherstinova, Tatiana

N1 - Conference code: 4

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - Digital technologies provide new possibilities for studying cultural heritage. Thus, literature research involving large text corpora allows to set and solve theoretical problems which previously had no prospects for their decision. For example, it has become possible to model the literary system for some definite literary period (i.e., for the Silver Age of Russian literature) and to classify prose writers according to their stylistic features. And more than that, it allows to solve more general theoretical problems. The given research was conducted on Russian literary texts of the early 20th century. The sample included 100 short stories by 100 different writers. The measurements were carried out for 5 syntactic variables. For each of these distributions, the most popular statistics were calculated. Basing on these data, we consider empirical verification of Lyapunov’s central limit theorem (CLT). The article validates the effectiveness of CLT theorem and the conditions for its implementation. Besides the normal (Gaussian) function we used another analytical model—the Hausstein function. It turned out that both theoretical distributions for each of five variables do not contradict the experimental data. However, the alternative analytical model (Hausstein function) has shown even better agreement with the experimental data. The obtained results may be used in computational linguistic studies and for research of Russian literary heritage.

AB - Digital technologies provide new possibilities for studying cultural heritage. Thus, literature research involving large text corpora allows to set and solve theoretical problems which previously had no prospects for their decision. For example, it has become possible to model the literary system for some definite literary period (i.e., for the Silver Age of Russian literature) and to classify prose writers according to their stylistic features. And more than that, it allows to solve more general theoretical problems. The given research was conducted on Russian literary texts of the early 20th century. The sample included 100 short stories by 100 different writers. The measurements were carried out for 5 syntactic variables. For each of these distributions, the most popular statistics were calculated. Basing on these data, we consider empirical verification of Lyapunov’s central limit theorem (CLT). The article validates the effectiveness of CLT theorem and the conditions for its implementation. Besides the normal (Gaussian) function we used another analytical model—the Hausstein function. It turned out that both theoretical distributions for each of five variables do not contradict the experimental data. However, the alternative analytical model (Hausstein function) has shown even better agreement with the experimental data. The obtained results may be used in computational linguistic studies and for research of Russian literary heritage.

KW - Russian literary texts

KW - Russian short stories

KW - Digital culture

KW - Syntax

KW - Stylistic variables

KW - Statistical distributions

KW - statistics

KW - Normal distribution

KW - Central limit theorem

UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-37858-5_61

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-37858-5

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-37858-5

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 9783030378578

T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science

SP - 719

EP - 731

BT - Digital Transformation and Global Society

A2 - Alexandrov , D.A.

A2 - et al.,

PB - Springer Nature

CY - Cham

T2 - 4th International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, DTGS 2019

Y2 - 19 June 2019 through 21 June 2019

ER -