Authorship profiling is a subtask of authorship identification. This task can be regarded as an analysis personal writing styles, which has been widely investigated. However, no previous studies have attempted to analyze the classical Chinese poetry. First, we provide approach evaluate popularity poets, and also establish public corpus containing top 20 most popular poets in Tang Dynasty for pr...

BACKGROUND The way that people explain events may influence aspects of their development and health. A number of studies have reported that there is a positive relationship between pessimism and the risk of poor heath, infectious disease, and early mortality. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of an optimism skills group training (OSGT) on the attribution styles ...

BACKGROUND One of social problems which has affected our society and resulted in problems for different groups of people is drug abuse. This issue indicates a serious psychological, physical and social problem in community. Social skills have positive and successful influences in prevention of substance abuse. This includes the ability to explain events correctly and then appropriate decision m...

Sociolinguistic theories (e.g., Lakoff (1973)) postulate that women’s language styles differ from that of men. In this paper, we explore statistical techniques that can learn to identify the gender of authors in modern English text, such as web blogs and scientific papers. Although recent work has shown the efficacy of statistical approaches to gender attribution, we conjecture that the reporte...

A study was carried out with 501 persons to analyze the predictive capacity of various psychosocial variables-symptom perception, neuroticism, Personality Types 2 and 4 of Grossarth-Maticek and Eysenck, beliefs about health, social support, or certain coping styles-on two health-related behaviors: the frequency of visits to the doctor and self-medication. The results were analyzed by two struct...

Stylometry refers to the statistical analysis of literary style of authors based on the characteristics of expression in their writings. We propose an approach to stylometry based on a Bayesian Dirichlet process mixture model using multinomial word frequency data. The parameters of the multinomial distribution of word frequency data are the “word prints” of the author. Our approach is based on ...