Michael Tschuggnall


2019

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Reduce & Attribute: Two-Step Authorship Attribution for Large-Scale Problems
Michael Tschuggnall | Benjamin Murauer | Günther Specht
Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)

Authorship attribution is an active research area which has been prevalent for many decades. Nevertheless, the majority of approaches consider problem sizes of a few candidate authors only, making them difficult to apply to recent scenarios incorporating thousands of authors emerging due to the manifold means to digitally share text. In this study, we focus on such large-scale problems and propose to effectively reduce the number of candidate authors before applying common attribution techniques. By utilizing document embeddings, we show on a novel, comprehensive dataset collection that the set of candidate authors can be reduced with high accuracy. Moreover, we show that common authorship attribution methods substantially benefit from a preliminary reduction if thousands of authors are involved.

2014

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Enhancing Authorship Attribution By Utilizing Syntax Tree Profiles
Michael Tschuggnall | Günther Specht
Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, volume 2: Short Papers