Authorship attribution with support vector machines

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 109-123

  Diederich, Joachim ^a   Kindermann, Jörg ^b   Leopold, Edda ^b   Paass, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GMD FI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Authorship identification; Support vector machines; Textmining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXT PROCESSING; VECTORS;

AUTHORSHIP IDENTIFICATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXT MINING METHODS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0038604019     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023824908771     Document Type: Article

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