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Effect of the Text Size on Stylometry—Application on Arabic Religious Texts

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In stylometry, there are two important technical questions: Firstly, does the text size affect the authorship attribution performances? and secondly, what could be the effect of the language on that attribution? To respond to those questions, we have conducted several experiments of authorship attribution applied on multi-size text documents. The text size varies from 100 words to 3000 words per document. For that purpose, a specific Arabic dataset has been conceived (i.e. A4P corpus). The corpus is made available for the scientific community and is suitable for the task of stylometry since the genre and theme are quite similar. Two types of features are investigated: character n-grams and words, in association with several classifiers, namely: SVM, MLP, Linear regression, Stamatatos distance and Manhattan distance. During the experiments, 2 types of scores are proposed: the “Score of Good Attribution” and “Robustness against Size Reduction” ratio. Results are quite interesting, showing that the minimum text size required for performing a fair authorship attribution, depends on the feature and classification method that are employed. For the evaluation task, a specific application of authorship attribution has been conducted on 7 religious books, where the main purpose was to check whether the Quran and Hadith could have the same Author or not. Results have clearly shown that those two books should have 2 different Authors.

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We warmly thank the research team of Dr. Juola and Al-Waraq library.

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  1. Electronics & Computer Engineering Faculty, USTHB University, Bab Ezzouar, Algeria

    S. Ouamour, S. Khennouf, S. Bourib, H. Hadjadj & H. Sayoud

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  3. Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science (LITA), UFR MIM, University of Lorraine, Ile du Saulcy, Metz, France

    Hoai An Le Thi

  4. Institute of Informatics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

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Ouamour, S., Khennouf, S., Bourib, S., Hadjadj, H., Sayoud, H. (2016). Effect of the Text Size on Stylometry—Application on Arabic Religious Texts. In: Nguyen, T.B., van Do, T., An Le Thi, H., Nguyen, N.T. (eds) Advanced Computational Methods for Knowledge Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 453. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38884-7_16

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