On the feasibility of internet-scale author identification

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 300-314

  Narayanan, Arvind ^a   Paskov, Hristo ^a   Gong, Neil Zhenqiang ^a   Bethencourt, John ^a   Stefanov, Emil ^a   Shin, Eui Chul Richard ^a   Song, Dawn ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHOR IDENTIFICATION; AUTHORSHIP RECOGNITION; BLOGGERS; CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION; FREE SPEECH; LARGE-SCALES; NUMBER OF CLASS; PERFORMANCE; STYLOMETRY; WRITING STYLE;

EID: 84876100930     PISSN: 10816011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SP.2012.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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