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Problems of Authorship Identification of the National Language Electronic Discourse

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Information and Software Technologies (ICIST 2015)

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The paper presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of the authorship identification methods in the national language electronic discourse. First, an overview and analysis of methods for English language is presented. Next, adaptations of general methods and well as language specific methods for national languages are considered. Challenges of authorship identification in electronic discourse is discussed. The requirements for developing authorship identification systems for forensics applications are discussed. Finally, the recommendations for developers of authorship identification methods and tools are presented.

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The authors acknowledge the contribution of the project “Lithuanian Cybercrime Centre of Excellence for Training, Research and Education”, Grant Agreement No. HOME/2013/ISEC/AG/INT/4000005176, co-funded by the Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme of the European Union.

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Venčkauskas, A., Damaševičius, R., Marcinkevičius, R., Karpavičius, A. (2015). Problems of Authorship Identification of the National Language Electronic Discourse. In: Dregvaite, G., Damasevicius, R. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 538. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24770-0_36

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