Authorship · Stylometry · Linguistic EvidenceFile Z-03 · Thursday, July 9, 2026
FLING/ˈflɪŋ/n.
Forensic Linguistics
The language is the evidence.

Brocardo et al. propose a supervised‑learning framework that leverages n‑gram stylometric features to perform authorship verification on short electronic messages, reporting an Equal Error Rate of 14.35 % for 500‑character blocks using the Enron email dataset.

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