stylest2 - Estimating Speakers of Texts
Estimates the authors or speakers of texts. Methods
developed in Huang, Perry, and Spirling (2020)
<doi:10.1017/pan.2019.49>. The model is built on a Bayesian
framework in which the distinctiveness of each speaker is
defined by how different, on average, the speaker's terms are
to everyone else in the corpus of texts. An optional
cross-validation method is implemented to select the subset of
terms that generate the most accurate speaker predictions. Once
a set of terms is selected, the model can be estimated. Speaker
distinctiveness and term influence can be recovered from
parameters in the model using package functions. Once fitted,
the model can be used to predict authorship of new texts.