Open-set attribution
Definition
An attribution task where the true author may or may not appear in the candidate pool. The system must both rank candidates and decide whether any candidate is a credible match, which requires a rejection threshold.
Related terms
- Closed-set attribution
- An attribution task where the true author is assumed to be one of a defined list of candidates. The system ranks candidates;...
- Feature extraction
- The process of converting raw text into a numerical vector of linguistic measurements. The choice of features determines what signal the classifier...
- Function words
- Grammatical words, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, pronouns, with little independent content meaning but high frequency in any text. Because they are used without...
- Idiolect
- The language variety specific to an individual, comprising their characteristic vocabulary, syntactic preferences, spelling habits, punctuation patterns, and discourse-level style. Authorship attribution...
- N-gram
- A contiguous sequence of n items (characters, words, or part-of-speech tags) extracted from text. Character n-grams and word n-grams are both standard...
Explained in
- Authorship Attribution: Principles and MethodsAn attribution task where the true author may or may not appear in the candidate pool. The system must both rank candidates and decide whether any candidate is...