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Authorship attribution of Arabic tweets
Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA
  • Abdullateef Rabab'Ah, Jordan University of Science and Technology
  • Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology
  • Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology
  • Monther Aldwairi, Zayed University
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
6-9-2017
Abstract

© 2016 IEEE. In tweet authentication, we are concerned with correctly attributing a tweet to its true author based on its textual content. The more general problem of authenticating long documents has been studied before and the most common approach relies on the intuitive idea that each author has a unique style that can be captured using stylometric features (SF). Inspired by the success of modern automatic document classification problem, some researchers followed the Bag-Of-Words (BOW) approach for authenticating long documents. In this work, we consider both approaches and their application on authenticating tweets, which represent additional challenges due to the limitation in their sizes. We focus on the Arabic language due to its importance and the scarcity of works related on it. We create different sets of features from both approaches and compare the performance of different classifiers using them. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind to combine these different sets of features for authorship analysis of Arabic tweets. The results show that combining all the feature sets we compute yields the best results.

ISBN
9781509043200
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Keywords
  • Authorship Authentication,
  • Bag-Of-Words,
  • Online Social Networks,
  • Stylometric Features
Scopus ID
85021965439
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA.2016.7945818
Citation Information
Abdullateef Rabab'Ah, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Yaser Jararweh and Monther Aldwairi. "Authorship attribution of Arabic tweets" Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA (2017) - 6 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2161-5322" target="_blank">2161-5322</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/monther-aldwairi/31/