Authorship attribution of Arabic tweets

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA

Publication Date

6-9-2017

Abstract

© 2016 IEEE. In tweet authentication, we are concerned with correctly attributing a tweet to its true author based on its textual content. The more general problem of authenticating long documents has been studied before and the most common approach relies on the intuitive idea that each author has a unique style that can be captured using stylometric features (SF). Inspired by the success of modern automatic document classification problem, some researchers followed the Bag-Of-Words (BOW) approach for authenticating long documents. In this work, we consider both approaches and their application on authenticating tweets, which represent additional challenges due to the limitation in their sizes. We focus on the Arabic language due to its importance and the scarcity of works related on it. We create different sets of features from both approaches and compare the performance of different classifiers using them. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind to combine these different sets of features for authorship analysis of Arabic tweets. The results show that combining all the feature sets we compute yields the best results.

ISBN

9781509043200

ISSN

2161-5322

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

Last Page

6

Disciplines

Computer Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Keywords

Authorship Authentication, Bag-Of-Words, Online Social Networks, Stylometric Features

Scopus ID

85021965439

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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