Some Possibilities of Computer Linguistics on an Example of Analysis of Novels

Abstract

This paper shows some aspects of statistical analysis of well-known novels: Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović (1966), Autobiography by Branislav Nušić (1924) and in the Registrar's Office by Ante Kovačić (1888). The goal of the analysis is to point to mutual similarities and differences of statistical data in those texts and to compare them with the up to date findings in that field. A part of the analysis relates to comparison of languages of these writers with today's language, used by column authors in electronic media. These kinds of researches belong to linguistics, as a science on language, but the results may be used in the contemporary development of artificial intelligence.