Towards active linguistic authentication

Patrick Juola; John Noecker; Ariel Stolerman; Michael Ryan; Patrick Brennan; Rachel Greenstadt

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41148-9_25

Towards active linguistic authentication

Patrick Juola, John Noecker, Ariel Stolerman, Michael Ryan, Patrick Brennan, Rachel Greenstadt

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Abstract

Biometric technologies offer a new and effective means for securing computers against unauthorized access. Linguistic technologies and, in particular, authorship attribution technologies can assist in this effort. This paper reports on the results of analyzing a novel corpus that was developed to test the possibility of active linguistic authentication. The study collected the one-week work product of nineteen temporary workers in a simulated office environment. The results demonstrate that techniques culled from the field of authorship attribution can identify workers with more than 90% accuracy.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Advances in Digital Forensics IX - 9th IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, Revised Selected Papers
Pages	385-398
Number of pages	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41148-9_25
State	Published - 2013
Event	9th Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics - Orlando, FL, United States Duration: Jan 28 2013 → Jan 30 2013

Publication series

Name	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume	410
ISSN (Print)	1868-4238

Conference

Conference	9th Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando, FL
Period	1/28/13 → 1/30/13

Keywords

Stylometry
authentication
authorship attribution
profiling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Information Systems
Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems and Management

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Juola, P., Noecker, J., Stolerman, A., Ryan, M., Brennan, P., & Greenstadt, R. (2013). Towards active linguistic authentication. In Advances in Digital Forensics IX - 9th IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 385-398). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 410). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41148-9_25

Towards active linguistic authentication. / Juola, Patrick; Noecker, John; Stolerman, Ariel et al.
Advances in Digital Forensics IX - 9th IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, Revised Selected Papers. 2013. p. 385-398 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 410).

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Juola, P, Noecker, J, Stolerman, A, Ryan, M, Brennan, P & Greenstadt, R 2013, Towards active linguistic authentication. in Advances in Digital Forensics IX - 9th IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, Revised Selected Papers. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 410, pp. 385-398, 9th Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, Orlando, FL, United States, 1/28/13. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41148-9_25

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