Event Details

Authorship Verification for Short Messages using Stylometry

Presenter: Marcelo Luiz Brocardo
Supervisor: Dr. Issa Traoré

Date: Fri, July 26, 2013
Time: 12:00:00 - 00:00:00
Place: EOW 430

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT:

Authorship verification can be checked using stylometric techniques through the analysis of linguistic styles and writing characteristics of the authors. Stylometry is a behavioral feature that a person exhibits during writing and can be extracted and used potentially to check the identity of the author of online documents. Although stylometric techniques can achieve high accuracy rates for long documents, it is still challenging to identify an author for short documents, in particular when dealing with large authors populations. These hurdles must be addressed for stylometry to be usable in checking authorship of online messages such as emails, text messages, or twitter feeds. In this seminar, we pose some steps toward achieving that goal by proposing a supervised learning technique combined with n-gram analysis for authorship verification in short texts.