authident

Authorship attribution with syntactic fragments. Cf. http://staff.science.uva.nl/~acranenb/clfl2012.pdf

Requirements:

• Stanford parser
• disco-dop
• Python 2.6+
• NLTK

Usage:

• run runexpfederalist.sh to download the federalist papers and evaluate on the disputed and co-authored papers.

alternatively, evaluate on larger set of texts with cross-validation:

• prepare a directory books/ with one directory for each author, each containing one .txt file per work in UTF-8.
• edit parseworks.sh and parsefiles.sh to set the right paths for Java and the Stanford parser
• edit and run runexpbooks.sh