Weight of authorship evidence with multiple categories of stylometric features: A multinomial-based discrete model |
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Affiliation: | Speech and Language Laboratory, The Australian National University, Building #9, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia;Linguistics Program, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Building #9, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia |
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Abstract: | This study empirically demonstrates the efficacy of a two-level Dirichlet-multinomial statistical model (the Multinomial system) for computing likelihood ratios (LR) for linguistic, textual evidence with multiple stylometric feature types with discrete values. The LRs are calculated separately for each feature type, namely, word, character and part of speech N-grams (N = 1,2,3), which are combined as overall LRs through logistic regression fusion. The Multinomial system’s performance is compared with that of a previously proposed system with the cosine distance (the Cosine system) using the same data (i.e., documents collated from 2160 authors). The experimental results show that: (1) the Multinomial system outperforms the Cosine system with the fused feature types by a log-LR cost of ca. 0.01 ~ 0.05 bits; and (2) the Multinomial system is more advantageous in performance with longer documents than the Cosine system. Although the Cosine system is more robust overall against the sampling variability arising from the number of authors included in the reference and calibration databases, the Multinomial system can achieve reasonable stability in performance; for example, the standard deviation value of the log-LR cost becomes lower than 0.01 (10 random samplings of authors for the reference and calibration databases) with 60 or more authors in each database. |
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Keywords: | Forensic text evidence Likelihood ratio Two-level Dirichlet-multinomial model Multiple types of stylometric discrete features Logistic regression calibration and fusion Log-likelihood ratio cost |
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