Remnick notes that children's book author Kornei Churnosky praised her translations of Turgenev and Chekhov but was less than pleased with her rendering of Dosteyevsky, complaining that she had smoothed over the erratic and challenging original text of that particular author.
this work focuses on these claims of distinguishability in particular, for it is exactly these characteristics that can, in principle, be investigated using supervised learning techniques: Is it the case that one can automatically distinguish Garnett's renderings of Dosteyevsky from her translations of Turgenev, and if so, based on which textual characteristics, word distributions or individual word frequencies?