Authorship Attribution Using Word Sequences

Authorship attribution is the task of identifying the author of a given text. The main concern of this task is to define an appropriate characterization of documents that captures the writing style of authors. This paper proposes a new method for authorship attribution supported on the idea that a proper identification of authors must consider both stylistic and topic features of texts. This method characterizes documents by a set of word sequences that combine functional and content words. The experimental results on poem classification demonstrated that this method outperforms most current state-of-the-art approaches, and that it is appropriate to handle the attribution of short documents.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CIARP
• Authors: Rosa María Coyotl-Morales, Luis Villaseñor Pineda, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Paolo Rosso
• Keywords: Appropriate Characterization, Authorship Attribution, CIARP 2006, Method Characterizes Documents, Pattern Recognition