Future Trends in Authorship Attribution
Patrick Juola · 2007
Authorship attribution, the science of inferring characteristics of an author from the characteristics of documents written by that author, is a problem with a long history and a wide range of application. This paper surveys the history and present state of the discipline — essentially a collection of ad hoc methods with little formal data available to select among them. It also makes some predictions about the needs of the discipline and discusses how these needs might be met.