A survey of modern authorship attribution methods

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 538-556

  Stamatatos, Efstathios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

19TH CENTURIES; AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTIONS; AUTOMATED APPROACHES; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; E-MAIL MESSAGES; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; MACHINE-LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ONLINE FORUMS; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; SOURCE CODES; TEXT CLASSIFICATIONS; TEXT REPRESENTATIONS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 62549150881     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21001     Document Type: Article

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