Authorship attribution, idiolectal style, and online identity
A specialised corpus of Najdi Arabic Tweets
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.27343Keywords:
authorship analysis, forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics, online identity, computer-mediated discourse analysis (CMDA), machine learningAbstract
Assistant Professor
Department of English Language
College of Language Sciences
King Saud University
Riyadh 11495 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Awarding Institution: University of Leeds, UK
Date of Award: 14 October 2022
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