Recent developments
¡ Using machine learning techniques to assist genre
analysis and authorship detection
l Fung & Mangasarian (03) use SVMs and Bosch &
Smith (98) use LP to confirm claim that the
disputed papers are Madison’s
l They use counts of up to three sets of function
words as their features
-0.5242as + 0.8895our + 4.9235upon 4.7368
l Many other studies out there…