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Authorship Attribution

Authorship attribution is the task of identifying the most probable author of an anonymous or disputed text by analysing its stylistic fingerprint. Rooted in the statistical work of Mosteller and Wallace on the Federalist Papers (1964), the field was systematically surveyed and formalised by Stamatatos (2009), who catalogued feature sets ranging from character n-grams and function-word frequencies to syntactic and semantic representations used by modern machine-learning classifiers.

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Authorship Attribution (Stylometry)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / text-mining
  • Stamatatos, E. (2009). A survey of modern authorship attribution methods. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(3), 538–556. · DOI 10.1002/asi.21001
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See alsoForensic Likelihood Ratiomachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Used in the same domainText Classificationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Used in the same domainWord2Vecmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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