Authorship Attribution of Messages

Abstract: Author identification can be implemented using n-gram method which exhibits a unique way of identification of any author of an anonymous document. It is indeed one of the important parts of the Computer System and author can be uniquely identified by its different textual features like punctuations, phrases, length of the sentence and others. To prevent plagiarism and verifying an individual�s identity Author identification has played a crucial role. In this paper focus is on Author identification and verification for a set of provided text using n-gram method. Our future vision is to identify and verify an author with high performance and solution for feature extraction from various text documents.

Keywords: Author verification, author identification, n-gram method, false acceptance rate, false rejection rate.