I have read about some University that already created the database that I think will be relevant to the work. I saw an article here on Free Republic that claimed they finally proved through computer analysis who wrote the various Federalist papers under the pseudonym "Publius."
I believe the answer was that James Madison wrote the ones which were in dispute.
Oddly enough, the piece of writing I wanted analyzed was also written under the name of "Publius" at a time when only Madison was still alive and active in national affairs.
I would think it would be a simple matter to run this text through that same database they used to determine that Madison had written the Federalist papers that were in dispute.
Now if I could only remember which University did it, and if someone could convince them to do the piece in which I am interested as well, that would be a fine piece of work. At least we would know.
If it turns out to be Madison, it might send a few shockwaves through several debates on matters of citizenship.
If I can get the special characters out of Mac’s first email, I’ll put it up. It’s sort of historical now. 2011, not 2007. One of the many problems we have with getting the attribution changed is that Mac writes peer-to-peer. I just received a book from someone wanting me to go over it and the chapter on Mac’s research was horribly light. He explained that his publisher wanted it to read like a magazine article. Mac does NOT read like a magazine article. Trying to explain how you decide which phoneme groups are valid for comparison twists your tongue in your mouth. I always thought the simplest way to prove the matter was to make people read Moore. He was the worst poet imaginable! Ghastly. Every time I had to go through data to analyze for yet another pass, I would absolutely SUFFER through Moore’s writing. Livingston’s floats like a dream.