Hacking stylometry with multiple voices: Imaginary writers can override authorial signal in Delta.
It is a basic assumption of stylometry that texts written by the same person show greater stylometric similarity even if published under multiple pennames. Statistical authorship attribution strongly relies on the ability of Burrows's Delta and its variants to cluster one author together regardless...
| Published in: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 1247 - 1267 |
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