@inproceedings{hua-2025-historians,
    title = "The Historian`s Fingerprint: A Computational Stylometric Study of the Zuo Commentary and Discourses of the States",
    author = "Hua, Wenjie",
    editor = "Anderson, Adam  and
      Gordin, Shai  and
      Li, Bin  and
      Liu, Yudong  and
      Passarotti, Marco C.  and
      Sprugnoli, Rachele",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "The Albuquerque Convention Center, Laguna",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Author-page-Marten-During-lu/2025.alp-1.15/",
    pages = "120--126",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-235-0",
    abstract = "Previous studies suggest that authorship can be inferred through stylistic features like func-tion word usage and grammatical patterns, yet such analyses remain limited for Old Chinese texts with disputed authorship. Computational methods enable a more nuanced exploration of these texts. This study applies stylometric anal-ysis to examine the authorship controversy be-tween the Zuo Commentary and the Discourses of the States. Using PoS 4-grams, Kullback-Leibler divergence, and multidimensional scal-ing (MDS), we systematically compare their stylistic profiles. Results show that the Zuo Commentary exhibits high internal consistency, especially in the later eight Dukes chapters, supporting its integration by a single scholarly tradition. In contrast, the Discourses of the States displays greater stylistic diversity, align-ing with the multiple-source compilation the-ory. Further analysis reveals partial stylistic similarities among the Lu, Jin, and Chu-related chapters, suggesting shared influences. These findings provide quantitative support for Tong Shuye`s arguments and extend statistical vali-dation of Bernhard Karlgren`s assertion on the textual unity of the Zuo Commentary."
}