Re: [liberationtech] On the Feasibility of Internet-Scale Author Identification
lodewijk andré de la porte
lodewijkadlp at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 06:33:58 PST 2012
> Is it just me, or is this not impressive? 100k is a tiny subset of
> authors, and a 20% hit rate means they're wrong 80% of the time. And
> then, if I "deliberately obfuscate my writing style", I can get out of
> that 20%?
>
I guess it's a proof of concept kind of thing. Stating there is such a
thing as a unique writing style, even an identifiable one. Now further
research can be done to actually make it work.
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