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The keyboard dilemma is the problem of identifying the authorship of a document that was produced by a computer to which multiple users had access. This paper describes a systematic methodology for authorship identification. Validation testing of the methodology demonstrated 95% cross validated accuracy in identifying documents from ten authors and 85% cross validated accuracy in identifying five-sentence chunks from ten authors.
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Chaski, C. (2007). The Keyboard Dilemma and Authorship Identification. In: Craiger, P., Shenoi, S. (eds) Advances in Digital Forensics III. DigitalForensics 2007. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 242. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73742-3_9
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