Mosab-Rezaei/19th-century-novelists

<h1 align="center">19th-century novelists' sentences</h1>

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We constructed the 5-author dataset using texts from Project Gutenberg, focusing on five prominent 19th-century novelists: Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, and Louisa May Alcott. This selection balances male and female authors as well as British and American literary traditions, offering a diverse testbed for stylistic analysis. Sentence segmentation was performed with the NLTK library, and tokenization/word counts were obtained with Stanford CoreNLP (v4.5.7). The final dataset contains 115,471 sentences. In addition to the raw sentences, the release includes rich annotations automatically extracted using Stanford CoreNLP, such as dependency relations, parse trees, and a variety of low-level and high-level syntactic features. These supplementary layers of linguistic information provide valuable resources for researchers interested not only in stylometric analysis but also in broader investigations of syntactic and semantic phenomena.

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the paper below in which it was introduced:

Paper: "Generation, Evaluation, and Explanation of Novelists’ Styles with Single-Token Prompts"</br>

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11363729</br> PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.20459</br> GitHub: https://github.com/mosabrezaei/Text-Generation-XAI</br>

Cite: </br> @inproceedings{rezaei2025stylometry,</br> title={Generation, Evaluation, and Explanation of Novelists’ Styles with Single-Token Prompts},</br> author={Rezaei, Mosab and Rajaei Moghadam, Mina and Shaikh, Abdul Rahman and Alhoori, Hamed and Freedman, Reva},</br> booktitle={ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)},</br> doi={10.1109/JCDL67857.2025.00026},</br> pages={148--157},</br> month={December},</br> year={2025}}