Comparative Analisys of Texts by F. M. Dostoevsky and Other Authors Using Decision Trees

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the research of the publicistic style of F. M. Dostoevsky compared to other authors (M. M. Dostoevsky, N. N. Strakhov, I. N. Shill, A. A. Golovachev, A. Grigoriev, Y. P. Polonsky) based on articles in the magazines "Time" and "Epoch" in the period 1861-1865 in pre-revolutionary spelling. Using the distribution of parts of speech and other features of text fragments (the length of such non-intersecting fragments is 1000 words), decision trees with different classification parameters and quality were constructed. Decision trees are easily interpreted as opposed to neural networks. The analysis of these graph-theoretic models has shown good results for works in Russian. It allows the researcher to set and solve various tasks of the text attribution.