December 28, Tuesday
12:00 – 13:30
Recent Results in Authorship Attribution
Computer Science seminar
Lecturer : Prof. Moshe Koppel
Affiliation : Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
Location : 202/37
Host : Dr. Aryeh Kontorovich
The standard problem of authorship attribution is that of determining which of a small closed set of candidates (for each of whom we have known writings) is the author of some anonymous text. This problem is well understood and can be regarded as solved (using standard NLP and machine learning tools). However, in the real world, we rarely encounter the standard problem, but rather much harder problems in which there are thousands of candidate authors and we have no guarantee that any of them is the actual author. We will review the state of the art regarding the harder versions and will discuss a number of very useful applications. If time permits, we will discuss some recent astonishing results on biblical literature.