Determining Authorship with Style
Project Members
Lauren M. Stuart, Saltanat Tazhibayeva, Ji Hyeon Hong, Amy Wagoner, Julia M. Taylor, Victor Raskin
Lauren M. Stuart, Saltanat Tazhibayeva, Ji Hyeon Hong, Amy Wagoner, Julia M. Taylor, Victor Raskin
Abstract
Stylometry is the characterization of a text's author by capturing the style of writing as measurable features expressed in the text. There are three major applications for stylometry: authorship verification, authorship attribution, and deception detection. In authorship verification, the styles of a text and the body of work of the supposed author are matched. Stylometrics include the usages and frequencies of words, word categories, or some syntactic structures. Research questions include the use of current tools and techniques on different corpora of different size and origin, expansion of syntactic and possibly into semantic features, the exploration of style variance by topic rather than by author, and the performance tradeoffs in current tools.