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Learning Stylometric Representations for Authorship Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • Steven H.H. Ding, McGill University
  • Benjamin C.M. Fung, McGill University
  • Farkhund Iqbal, Zayed University
  • William K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Abstract

© 2013 IEEE. Authorship analysis (AA) is the study of unveiling the hidden properties of authors from textual data. It extracts an author's identity and sociolinguistic characteristics based on the reflected writing styles in the text. The process is essential for various areas, such as cybercrime investigation, psycholinguistics, political socialization, etc. However, most of the previous techniques critically depend on the manual feature engineering process. Consequently, the choice of feature set has been shown to be scenario- or dataset-dependent. In this paper, to mimic the human sentence composition process using a neural network approach, we propose to incorporate different categories of linguistic features into distributed representation of words in order to learn simultaneously the writing style representations based on unlabeled texts for AA. In particular, the proposed models allow topical, lexical, syntactical, and character-level feature vectors of each document to be extracted as stylometrics. We evaluate the performance of our approach on the problems of authorship characterization, authorship identification and authorship verification with the Twitter, blog, review, novel, and essay datasets. The experiments suggest that our proposed text representation outperforms the static stylometrics, dynamic n -grams, latent Dirichlet allocation, latent semantic analysis, distributed memory model of paragraph vectors, distributed bag of words version of paragraph vector, word2vec representations, and other baselines.

Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Authorship analysis (AA),
  • computational linguistics,
  • representation learning,
  • text mining
Scopus ID
85035745911
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository
http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01219
Citation Information
Steven H.H. Ding, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal and William K. Cheung. "Learning Stylometric Representations for Authorship Analysis" IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Vol. 49 Iss. 1 (2019) p. 107 - 121 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2168-2267" target="_blank">2168-2267</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/farkhund-iqbal/160/