E-mail authorship verification for forensic investigation

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1591-1598

  Iqbal, Farkhund ^a   Khan, Liaquat A ^a   Fung, Benjamin C M ^a   Debbabi, Mourad ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

classification; cyber crimes; e mail forensics; regression; stylometric features

Indexed keywords

AUTHORSHIP ANALYSIS; AUTHORSHIP VERIFICATION; CROSS-VALIDATION TECHNIQUE; CYBER CRIMINALS; CYBER FORENSICS; CYBER-CRIMES; DATA MINING COMMUNITY; DATA SETS; EQUAL ERROR RATE; FORENSIC INVESTIGATION; PHISHING; SAMPLE POPULATION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS;

CRIME; SECURITY OF DATA; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 77954704077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1774088.1774428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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