SU@PAN'2015: Experiments in Author Verification

We describe the submission of the Soa University team for the Author Identication Task, part of the PAN 2015 Challenge. Given a small set of documents by a single person and a \questioned" docu- ment, possibly of a dierent genre and/or topic, the task is to determine whether the questioned document was written by the same person who wrote the known document set. This is a hard but realistic formulation of the task, also known as author verication . We experimented with an SVM classier using variety of features extracted from publicly available resources. Our solution was among the fastest, and running time was an ocial evaluation metric; however, our results were not so strong on AUC and C1.