Identifying reliable, valid markers of authorship: A response to Chaski

Speech, Language and the Law

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 66-79

  Grant, Tim ^a   Baker, Kevin ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authorship attribution; Markers of authorship; Reliability; Sampling; Stylometrics; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249117736     PISSN: 13501771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/sll.2001.8.1.66     Document Type: Article

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