Adversarial stylometry: Circumventing authorship recognition to preserve privacy and anonymity

ACM Transactions on Information and System Security

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Brennan, Michael ^a   Afroz, Sadia ^a   Greenstadt, Rachel ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimentation Additional

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TRANSLATION; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION; DEVASTATING EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTATION ADDITIONAL; HUMAN SUBJECTS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; STYLOMETRY; WRITING STYLE;

ALGORITHMS; LINGUISTICS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84872026771     PISSN: 10949224     EISSN: 15577406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2382448.2382450     Document Type: Article

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