Quantitative authorship attribution: An evaluation of techniques

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 251-270

  Grieve, Jack ^a,b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 34548288405     PISSN: 02681145     EISSN: 14774615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqm020     Document Type: Article

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