A framework for authorship identification of online messages: Writing-style features and classification techniques

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 378-393

  Zheng, Rong ^a   Li, Jiexun ^b   Chen, Hsinchun ^b   Huang, Zan ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; ONLINE MESSAGES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

BACKPROPAGATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA REDUCTION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INTERNET; NEURAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33644552803     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20316     Document Type: Article

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