Classification of Instant Messaging Communications for Forensics Analysis
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Author identification, also called authorship attribution, is the task of determining the author of a piece of work. All humans have unique patterns of behavior, much like the uniqueness of biometric data. Therefore, certain characteristics pertaining to language, composition, and writing, such as particular syntactic and structural layout traits, patterns of vocabulary usage, unusual language usage, and stylistic traits, should remain relatively constant. The identification and learning of these characteristics with a sufficiently high accuracy is the principal challenge in author identification.
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