A unified approach to authorship attribution and verification
In authorship attribution, one assigns texts from an unknown author to either one of two or more candidate authors by comparing the disputed texts with texts known to have been written by the candidate authors. In authorship verification, one decides whether a text or a set of texts could have been...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/89602 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/89602 https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2016.1148630 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Bayesian statistical decision theory Bayesian methods Model selection Multinomial distribution Stylometry Anàlisi de dades -- Models matemàtics Estadística matemàtica Estadística bayesiana Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística |
| Sumario: | In authorship attribution, one assigns texts from an unknown author to either one of two or more candidate authors by comparing the disputed texts with texts known to have been written by the candidate authors. In authorship verification, one decides whether a text or a set of texts could have been written by a given author. These two problems are usually treated separately. By assuming an open-set classification framework for the attribution problem, contemplating the possibility that none of the candidate authors is the unknown author, the verification problem becomes a special case of attribution problem. Here both problems are posed as a formal Bayesian multinomial model selection problem and are given a closed-form solution, tailored for categorical data, naturally incorporating text length and dependence in the analysis, and coping well with settings with a small number of training texts. The approach to authorship verification is illustrated by exploring whether a court ruling sentence could have been written by the judge that signs it, and the approach to authorship attribution is illustrated by revisiting the authorship attribution of the Federalist papers and through a small simulation study. |
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