Breaking the Closed-World Assumption in Stylometric Authorship Attribution
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“Authorship verification techniques have traditionally relied on modeling stylometric linguistic properties, such as punctuation and whitespace usage and the frequencies of function words, parts-of-speech, and character n -grams (Stamatatos, 2009; Stolerman et al., 2014).”
- Authors
- Stolerman, A., Overdorf, R., Afroz, S., & Greenstadt, R.
- Affiliations
- Drexel University (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Venue
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Published
- 2014
- Volume
- AICT-433
- Pages
- 185-205
- ISSN
- 0302-9743 (ISSN-L)
- 1611-3349
- OpenAlex
- W2206298121
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 1.77
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Lecture notes in computer science (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Authorship Attribution and Profiling
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › User Authentication and Security Systems
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques
- Keywords
- stylometry, authorship attribution, closed world assumption
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