The state of authorship attribution studies: Some problems and solutions

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 351-365

  Rudman, Joseph ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship attribution; Statistics; Stylistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249122988     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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