Explanation in computational stylometry

Authors:
Walter Daelemans
Affiliations:
CLiPS, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Venue:
CICLing'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - Volume 2
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Computational stylometry, as in authorship attribution or profiling, has a large potential for applications in diverse areas: literary science, forensics, language psychology, sociolinguistics, even medical diagnosis. Yet, many of the basic research questions of this field are not studied systematically or even at all. In this paper we will go into these problems, and suggest that a reinterpretation of current and historical methods in the framework and methodology of machine learning of natural language processing would be helpful. We also argue for more attention in research for explanation in computational stylometry as opposed to purely quantitative evaluation measures and propose a strategy for data collection and analysis for achieving progress in computational stylometry. We also introduce a fairly new application of computational stylometry in internet security.