A unified data mining solution for authorship analysis in anonymous textual communications

Information Sciences

Volumn 231, Issue , 2013, Pages 98-112

  Iqbal, Farkhund ^a   Binsalleeh, Hamad ^a   Fung, Benjamin C M ^a   Debbabi, Mourad ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Authorship characterization; Authorship identification; Cyber forensics; Frequent patterns; Stylometric features; Writeprint

Indexed keywords

AUTHORSHIP IDENTIFICATION; CYBER FORENSICS; FREQUENT PATTERNS; STYLOMETRIC FEATURES; WRITE-PRINT;

COMPUTER CRIME; DATA MINING; LINGUISTICS;

CRIME;

EID: 84874110943     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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