Development of new models for authorship recognition using complex networks

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Marinho, Vanessa Queiroz
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Authorship attribution; Complex networks; Natural language processing; Processamento de línguas naturais; Reconhecimento de autoria; Redes complexas
• Link de acesso: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-14112017-091805/

Complex networks have been successfully applied to different fields, being the subject of study in different areas that include, for example, physics and computer science. The finding that methods of complex networks can be used to analyze texts in their different complexity levels has implied in advances in natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Examples of applications analyzed with the methods of complex networks are keyword identification, development of automatic summarizers, and authorship attribution systems. The latter task has been studied with some success through the representation of co-occurrence (or adjacency) networks that connect only the closest words in the text. Despite this success, only a few works have attempted to extend this representation or employ different ones. Moreover, many approaches use a similar set of measurements to characterize the networks and do not combine their techniques with the ones traditionally used for the authorship attribution task. This Masters research proposes some extensions to the traditional co-occurrence model and investigates new attributes and other representations (such as mesoscopic and named entity networks) for the task. The connectivity information of function words is used to complement the characterization of authors writing styles, as these words are relevant for the task. Finally, the main contribution of this research is the development of hybrid classifiers, called labelled motifs, that combine traditional factors with properties obtained with the topological analysis of complex networks. The relevance of these classifiers is verified in the context of authorship attribution and translationese identification. With this hybrid approach, we show that it is possible to improve the performance of networkbased techniques when they are combined with traditional ones usually employed in NLP. By adapting, combining and improving the model, not only the performance of authorship attribution systems was improved, but also it was possible to better understand what are the textual quantitative factors (measured through networks) that can be used in stylometry studies. The advances obtained during this project may be useful to study related applications, such as the analysis of stylistic inconsistencies and plagiarism, and the analysis of text complexity. Furthermore, most of the methods proposed in this work can be easily applied to many natural languages.