Cross-topic authorship attribution: Will out-of-topic data help?

COLING 2014 - 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2014: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1228-1237

  Sapkota, Upendra ^a   Solorio, Thamar ^a   Montes Y gomez, Manuel ^b   Bethard, Steven ^a   Rosso, Paolo ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION; FEATURE TYPES; PREDICTIVE MODELING; TEST DATA; TRAINING DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84959911457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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