Machine Learning Methods for Stylometry

Jacques Savoy is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland). His research interests mainly include natural language processing and particularly information retrieval for languages other than English (European, Asian, and Indian) as well as multilingual and cross-lingual information retrieval. For many years he has participated in various evaluations campaigns (TREC, CLEF, NTCIR, FIRE) dealing with these questions. His current research interests focus on the statistical modeling and evaluation of natural language processing such as text clustering and categorization, as well as authorship attribution.

• Part I: Fundamental Concepts and Models.- 1. Introduction to Stylistic Models and Applications.- 2. Basic Lexical Concepts and Measurements.- 3. Distance-Based Approaches.- Part II: Advanced Models and Evaluation.- 4. Evaluation Methodology and Test Corpora.- 5. Features Identification and Selection.- 6. Machine Learning Models.- 7. Advanced Models for Stylometric Applications.- Part III: Cases Studies.- 8. Elena Ferrante: A Case Study in Authorship Attribution.- 9. Author Profiling of Tweets.- 10. Applications to Political Speeches.- 11. Conclusion.