#author profiling

Authorship Attribution

Part I with some explanation

Added texts:

Pl1 Platonov “Chevengur” (1928)

Na1 Nabokov “The Defence” (1930)

Na2 Nabokov “The Gift” (1938)

Na3 Nabokov “Mary” (1926)

Ai1 Aitmatov “The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years” (1980)

Ai2 Aitmatov “The Place of the Skull” (1987)

Ye1 Yerofeyev “Moscow-Petushki” (1969)

Authorship Attribution

Part I with some explanation

Added texts:

Ch1 Chekhov “Kashtanka” (1887)

Ch2 Chekhov “Ward No. 6″ (1892)

Gor1 Gorky “Mother” (1906)

Ku1 Kuprin “The Garnet Bracelet” (1911)

Ku2 Kuprin “Olesya” (1898)

Be1 Bely “Petersburg” (1913)

Za1 Zamyatin “We” (1920)

Bu1 Bulgakov “The White Guard” (1926)

Authorship Attribution

Part I with some explanation

Added texts:

Pu1 Pushkin “Dubrovsky” (1832)

G1 Gogol “Viy” (1835)

Go1 Goncharov “Oblomov” (1859)

Le1 Lermontov “A Hero of Our Time” (1840)

Tu1 Turgenev “A Nest of Gentlefolk” (1859)

Tu2 Turgenev “Fathers and Sons” (1862)

Che1 Chernyshevsky “What Is To Be Done” (1863)

Authorship Attribution

Texts by Tolstoy: 

T1 Anna Karenina (1878)*

T2 War and Piece (1869)*

T3 Childhood (1852)

T4 Boyhood (1854)

T5 Youth (1956)

T6 The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)

T7 Family Happiness (1859)

T8 The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)

T9 Tolstoy Resurrection (1899)

Texts by Dostoevsky:

D1 Crime and Punishment (1866)*

D2 The Brothers Karamazov (1880)*

D3 Demons (1872)

D4 The Gambler (1867)

D5 Humiliated and Insulted (1861)

D6 Poor Folk (1846)

D7 The Adolescent (1875)

D8 The Idiot (1869)

Notes:

Idea: Khmelev DV, Tweedie FJ (2001). Using Markov Chains for Identification of Writers. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 16(3): 299-307.

All texts are in Russian.

Using letter bigrams (frequency of character pairs).

Calculation of the transition matrix for an author: Tolstoy (T1+T2), Dostoevsky (D1+D2)

Predicting the authorship of all other texts.

Presenting the results using Voronoi diagram.