Authorship Attribution Via Combination of Evidence

Authorship attribution is a process of determining who wrote a particular document. We have found that different systems work well for particular sets of authors but not others. In this paper, we propose three authorship attribution systems, based on different ways of combining existing methodologies. All systems show better effectiveness than the state-of-art methods.

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