A comparative study of machine learning methods for authorship attribution.

We compare and benchmark the performance of five classification methods, four of which are taken from the machine learning literature, in a classic authorship attribution problem involving the Federalist Papers. Cross-validation results are reported for each method, and each method is further employ...

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Publicado en:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 215 - 224
Autores principales: Jockers, Matthew L., Witten, Daniela M.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2010
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          Department of English, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
          Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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        Attribution of authorship
        Machine learning
        Artificial intelligence
        Machine theory
        Multivariate analysis
        Statistical correlation
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          Multivariate analysis
          Statistical correlation
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