Practical overview
When it fits
Use it to explore stylistic variation within one document when clustering passages by measurable text features is more useful than assigning each passage a known author label.
Who it is for
- Researchers exploring stylometry and unsupervised text analysis.
- Readers investigating stylistic changes across passages in a document.
- Developers studying a Python implementation of within-document style clustering.
Documented uses
- Group passages that share similar stylometric characteristics.
- Explore shifts in style that may reflect different authors or genres.
- Identify passages for human review in an intrinsic plagiarism investigation.
Requirements & limits
The code is available in a public GitHub repository under the MIT license.
- The analysis works by dividing text into fixed-size sentence chunks, so results depend on chunking and the selected stylometric features.
- K is selected with the Elbow Method; the resulting cluster count is treated by the project as corresponding to the document’s number of styles.
- The README reports an experiment involving two writing styles, while describing plagiarism detection as a possible application rather than a definitive finding.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Analyze a document for writing-style differences
Use the described stylometric workflow to group text chunks by writing style.
Before you start
- A single document to analyze; the README says the system can be run on any document.
- The document is divided into chunks using a fixed number of sentences per chunk.
Steps
Divide the document into chunks using a fixed sentence-count window.
Compute stylometric feature vectors for each chunk, including lexical, vocabulary-richness, and readability features.
Cluster the feature vectors with K-Means, selecting the cluster count K using the Elbow Method.
Review which chunks group together as indicators of shared writing style.
Expected outcome
Chunks with similar stylometric features are grouped together; the number of clusters is used to indicate the number of writing styles in the document.
Guide limitations
- The README describes the analysis method but does not provide execution commands or operational setup instructions.
- The described approach identifies stylistic groupings; any plagiarism interpretation requires human review.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 15 October 2026
- Original website title
- Hassaan-Elahi/Writing-Styles-Classification-Using-Stylometric-Analysis · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

