A stylometric analysis on Bengali literature for authorship attribution
M. Tahmid Hossain, Md. Moshiur Rahman, Sabir Ismail, Md. Saiful Islam · 2017
This paper explores the authorship attribution problem in modern Bengali literature. By scrutinizing the writings of six Bangladeshi columnists of current time using some established and modified stylometric features the writing patterns of these writers have been observed. With statistical analysis on a corpus containing around seven hundred articles the most effective style markers that can create a significant difference among authors were identified. Based on these features a classification model and a voting system were developed to identify the original author of an unknown document. The developed voting system achieved 90.67% accuracy rate on a test corpus of three hundred articles.