New Computer Strategies for Authorship Problems

"It is not likely that we will ever be able to establish authorship by computer methods alone, be it a question of 'Who is the author?' or the question 'What did this author write?' However, there are any number of other kinds of authorship problems where the computer may be helpful. The methods to be described in this paper were arrived at not so much by logical reasoning as by serendipidy. The theory came later. Though these methods may never be able to prove that Shakespeare is the author of say, Edward III, or that it was another author who wrote the works we attribute to Shakespeare, you may find them useful nevertheless in providing visibility into certain aspects of style.