Authorship Attribution Based on Cusum Analysis

Document Type : Research Paper

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Ph.D. candidate Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

10.29252/kavosh.2011.2519

Abstract

Authorship Attribution, a branch of Forensic Linguistics, is concerned with the attribution of a text (from literary to forensic) to its author via criteria presented by each method. Since most of the work done on Persian authorship attribution rests primarily on stylistic & subjective considerations and objective criteria have not been considered, dispute over the attributed texts are observed Hence, in the present study, after reviewing the literature on authorship attribution, one of the current and most prevalent methods based on linguistic-statistical keys, by the name of Cusum Analysis, is firstly introduced and then using some contemporary Persian prose texts, the efficiency of the mentioned method in attributing Persian texts will be evaluated.
 

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