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Authorship Analysis Studies: A Survey

by Sara El Manar El Bouanani, Ismail Kassou
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 86 - Number 12
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Sara El Manar El Bouanani, Ismail Kassou
10.5120/15038-3384

Sara El Manar El Bouanani, Ismail Kassou . Authorship Analysis Studies: A Survey. International Journal of Computer Applications. 86, 12 ( January 2014), 22-29. DOI=10.5120/15038-3384

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title = { Authorship Analysis Studies: A Survey },
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issue_date = { January 2014 },
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issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 22-29 },
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doi = { 10.5120/15038-3384 },
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Abstract

The objective in this paper is to provide a review of the different studies done on authorship analysis. Focus is on outlining the stylometricStylometric features that allow distinguishing between authors and on listing the diverse techniques used to classify an author's texts.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Authorship characterization authorship attribution similarity detection Stylometric features probabilistic models compression models Machine learning classifiers clustering algorithms inter-textual distance.

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