Caesar Stylometric Assignment

This assignment is an analysis of Caesar's De Bello Gallico. There are 7 parts to this assignment.

Part 1: Build corpus and normalise the text

• The text is fetched from thelatinlibrary.com, and is fetched via node-fetch.

Part 2: Normalise the text

• Text is formatted using regex to remove newlines, text between the square brackets at the beginning of each chapter.
• Text is converted to lower case.

Part 3: Determine the average length of sentence in characters and words.

• Text is parsed into sentences using an external library, as abbreviations such as vii. and kal. made it impossible to split sentences by looking for periods.
• The total word count or the number of characters is then divided by the total number of sentences to get the average characters or words in a sentence.

Part 4: Comparative length of a sentences in a paragraph.

• I haven't quite figured this part out yet

Part 5: Stop Words

• The text is split into words, and the words are then sorted by frequency of their occurance.
• A list of "stop words" like prepositions and common forms of sum was compiled.
• The most common words excluding the "stop words" are then displayed

Results and more to come!