問題詳情

Patrick Juola has practiced stylometry, the science of linguistic style, for decades. But hewas never famous for it until this month, when he helped unmask the world’s best-knownliving author. An associate professor of computer science at Duquesne University, Mr. Juolawas one of two academics enlisted by London’s Sunday Times to confirm a tip that J.K.Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series, had written a new detective novel under a nom deplume.29 A digital-humanities field that bridges the gap between academic research andpractical science came to sudden prominence. At a time when the Internet has madeanonymous writing prevalent and potentially powerful, stylometry could make it easier forofficials and others to unmask the authors behind unsigned texts. 30The story of how Mr. Juola helped foil Ms. Rowling’s attempt to publish a new novelwithout the baggage of her boy-wizard legacy suggests a novelistic saga of its own—one ofobsession and tireless sleuthing. 31 The heavy lifting was done by a computer programthat he had designed to recognize writing tics undetectable by human readers. He instructedthe program to compare the sample texts using four variables: word-length distribution; theuse of common words like “the” and “of”; recurring-word pairings; and the distribution of“character 4-grams,” or groups of four adjacent characters, words, or parts of words. Thecomputer analysis took only about a half an hour, says Mr. Juola.32 However, they made a pretty strong case for Ms. Rowling as the author of TheCuckoo’s Calling—at least compared with the three other authors of the sample texts. Ms.Rowling’s sample from The Casual Vacancy returned either the closest or second-closestmatch.33 She confessed quickly, though reluctantly. The newspaper ran its article thatweekend, and by Monday, Mr. Juola had become known as the computer scientist who hadfound out the fantasy-author-turned-mystery-novelist by doing some detective work of hisown. 

(A) The findings were not unequivocal. 
(B) In fact, Mr. Juola didn’t break a sweat. 
(C) As a fan, Mr. Juola has long suspected that J.K. Rowling was the real author. 
(D) Emboldened by Mr. Juola’s findings, The Sunday Times challenged Ms. Rowling. (AB) Conversely, the method could also make it easier for those writers to keep theiridentities hidden.(AC) Upon release, the novel was much acclaimed for its simple yet vivid portrayal of thecharacters. (AD) After Ms. Rowling acknowledged the ruse, Mr. Juola found himself caught up in atale sweeping through the literary world. (BC) Results generated from the analysis consistently indicated Ms. Rowling’s writingstyle to be most similar to that of the novel.
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參考答案

答案：A,D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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