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THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORENSIC COMPUTER SCIENCE - ICoFCS 2012

Print ISBN 978-85-65069-08-3 - Online ISBN 978-85-65069-06-9, pages 27-32
DOI: 10.5769/C2012004 and http://dx.doi.org/10.5769/C2012004



Authorship of Electronic Documents - Use Data Compression to Attribute Authorship in Brazilian Portuguese Electronic Documents



By Walter Oliveira, Edson Justino, Luiz Oliveira, and Alexandre Brondani


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ABSTRACT

Discovering the author of electronic documents can be a challenging task, since some elements that are found in traditional documents aren’t present. In such task, the expert can use tools that help him finding out the writing style of the probable authors. One possible method is the use of data compression to identify which authors have a similar stylistic. In this work, 300 documents written in Brazilian Portuguese from 20 different authors are analyzed, and results are compared with previous techniques.


KEYWORDS

Authorship Attribution; Electronic Documents; Normalized Compression Distance; Conditional Complexity of Compression.

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