Authorship attribution of E-Mail: Comparing classifiers over a new corpus for evaluation

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2179-2183

  Allison, Ben ^a   Guthrie, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LINGUISTICS;

AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION; AUTOMATIC TECHNIQUE; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; COMPARING CLASSIFIERS; HIERARCHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LEXICAL INFORMATION; LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; TEXT REPRESENTATION;

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EID: 84945955782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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