ADHO is very pleased to announce that the 2026 Antonio Zampolli Prize was awarded to the stylo tool and the Computational Stylistics Group for their transformative impact on our field through the development and dissemination of stylo, an R library for stylometric analysis. Since its launch in 2013, stylo has become the standard toolkit for computational authorship attribution and broader stylistic analysis across genres, languages, and scholarly disciplines. Its user-friendly interface, advanced statistical methods, multilingual support, and commitment to methodological rigor have democratized access to computational literary analysis, enabling scholars from varied backgrounds to conduct robust research. Beyond the software, the prize also recognizes the group’s sustained efforts in community-building through workshops, open-source development, interdisciplinary collaborations, and training initiatives that have empowered a new generation of digital humanists. Their work not only advanced scholarship in literary studies, linguistics, and forensics, but also exemplified how thoughtful tool design grounded in scholarly and humanistic values can reshape an entire field.
A representative from the group will deliver a plenary lecture at the DH2026 conference in Korea.