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The paper concerns the authorship recognition in a collection of Polish literary texts from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, consisting of 99 novels from 33 authors. The authors divide the books into smaller parts and analyze the classification based on a book part. To mimic the real task of testing an unknown book, the data set has been divided in such a way that parts of the same book do not appear simultaneously in the training and test set. The authors compare the approaches by working with raw texts, and, to avoid the semantic features of the text, they represent texts in the form of a sequence of grammatical class bigrams. In the case of raw text analysis, classical TF-IDF, supervised fastText, and contemporary transformer-based BERT are analyzed. In the case of grammatical classes, only TF-IDF and fastText are applied. In addition, the authors propose a sequence averaging method that works by dividing the text into smaller parts, classifying each part separately, and making the final classification based on averaging results from each part of the text. The study suggests that the TF-IDF on the raw text outperforms other methods and the sequence averaging improves the classification results for most of the analyzed schemas. Surprisingly, the BERT based method is the worst. This phenomenon is carefully analyzed and explained.
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Walkowiak, T. (2023). Author Attribution of Literary Texts in Polish by the Sequence Averaging. In: Rutkowski, L., Scherer, R., Korytkowski, M., Pedrycz, W., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zurada, J.M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13589. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23480-4_31
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