A comparative study of machine learning methods for authorship attribution

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 215-223

  Jockers, Matthew L ^a   Witten, Daniela M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77953886062     PISSN: 02681145     EISSN: 14774615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqq001     Document Type: Article

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