Author attribution evaluation with novel topic cross-validation

KDIR 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 206-215

  Schein, Andrew I ^a   Caver, Johnnie F ^a   Honaker, Randale J ^a   Martell, Craig H ^a  

^a Naval Postgraduate School   (United States)

Author keywords

Author attribution; Cross validation; Genre shift; Novel topic

Indexed keywords

AUTHOR ATTRIBUTION; AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION; AUTOMATIC-LEARNING; CROSS VALIDATION; DEPLOYMENT SETTINGS; DOCUMENT IDENTIFIERS; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; EVALUATION METRICS; EVALUATION STUDY; GENRE SHIFT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MACHINE-LEARNING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; NEW YORK TIME; NOVEL TOPIC; STATISTICAL MODELS; TESTING FRAMEWORK; TRAINING DATA;

EQUIPMENT TESTING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TEST FACILITIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 78651457803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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