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Researcher in authorship analysis here. Yes, punctuation specific patterns have been used in the literature for this purpose, quite a bit. Removing the words al
by rlayton2 5y ago
Researcher in authorship analysis here. Yes, punctuation specific patterns have been used in the literature for this purpose, quite a bit. Removing the words also reduces the impact of the content of an article on your results (i.e. accidentally guessing the author because the topic is baseball and you only have one writer who writes about baseball in your dataset).
Typically, this type of feature is generalised of "character n-grams", but there are lots of variants.
- blondin 5y agointeresting. i also wanted to answer the same question. so i pasted two essays from one of my favorite authors in the tool. the punctuation summaries looked very different. the two essays were by Isaac Asimov -- he does have a somewhat recognizable writing style. one essay was on physics and one of demonology. then again, nlp has "stop words". i guess maths and physics would have math symbols stripped in that line of research?
- junon 5y agoVery interesting, thanks for the answer - strangely (but pleasantly) relevant area of study!