Automatic Identification of an Author Based on Writing Style

Abstract

It often happens that articles that appear in the press or sometimes entire books are not signed and we know nothing about their author. It also happens that authors attribute to themselves the authorship of an unsigned article or book or, on the contrary, that critics question this authorship. The idea of the present subject and of being able to attest whether, according to the style of this or that other author, an unsigned article could be from him or not. Our interest in the subject applies to journalistic articles in Arabic with nationalist or even revolutionary connotations from the pre-revolutionary Algerian period that appeared in EchChihâb and/or El-Bassā'ir.

Unfortunately we didn't manage to found a proper Arabic data concern our topic , therefore we used a English one. The Ech-Chihâb of IbnBadîs appeared from 1925 to 1939 first in weekly and then monthly form. El-Bassa ‘ir was the organ of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulemas from 1935 to 1939 and then slipped voluntarily during the Second World War to reappear only in 1947 to be suspended by the colonial administration in 1946. Both newspapers contained religious, social, and biographical articles with moralistic aims, but also contained sections of national or foreign policy, which are of particular interest to us.