idiolect: An R package for forensic authorship analysis

Authorship Analysis is defined as the task of determining the likelihood that a certain individual is the author of a certain set of questioned texts.This determination is done by analysing the language of the questioned texts and the language of samples produced by the candidate author or authors.This kind of analysis is often applied in the context of literary problems (e.g.Robert Galbraith as J.K. Rowling's alias (Juola, 2015), the identity of Elena Ferrante (Tuzzi & Cortelazzo, 2018)), historical problems (

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The Journal of Open Source Software
Published
2026-03-15
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https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07575
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Authorship Attribution and Profiling
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idiolect: An R package for forensic authorship analysis

Andrea Nini
The Journal of Open Source Software
Authorship Attribution and Profiling
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idiolect: An R package for forensic authorship analysis

Andrea Nini
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Abstract

Authorship Analysis is defined as the task of determining the likelihood that a certain individual is the author of a certain set of questioned texts.This determination is done by analysing the language of the questioned texts and the language of samples produced by the candidate author or authors.This kind of analysis is often applied in the context of literary problems (e.g.Robert Galbraith as J.K. Rowling's alias (Juola, 2015), the identity of Elena Ferrante (Tuzzi & Cortelazzo, 2018)), historical problems (

The Journal of Open Source SoftwareVol. 11(119)
University of Manchester (GB)
Gender equality
Openalex Percentile: Top 24%
Authorship Attribution and Profiling
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