Improving Authorship Attribution: Optimizing Burrows' Delta Method

Peter W. H. Smith, W. Aldridge, 2011. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics.

Tests how the choice and number of frequent words, the similarity measure and the corpus affect Burrows' Delta for authorship attribution, and reports a clear gain from switching to cosine similarity.

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Smith, P. W. H., & Aldridge, W. (2011). Improving Authorship Attribution: Optimizing Burrows' Delta Method. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2011.533591

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Smith, Peter W. H. and W. Aldridge. “Improving Authorship Attribution: Optimizing Burrows' Delta Method.” Journal of Quantitative Linguistics (2011). https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2011.533591.