Authorship detection: 2011 group

Supervisors

• Prof Derek Abbott
• Dr Matthew Berryman
• Dr Brian Ng
• Mrs Maryam Ebrahimpour

Collaborators

• François-Pierre Huchet, ITII Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France.
• Talis Putnins, BICEPS, Latvia.
• J. José Alviar, University of Navarra, Spain

2011 Students

• Yan Xie
• Kai He
• Zhaokun Wang

Weekly progress and questions

Semester 2, Week 1

Yan Xie

Progress and Status this week:

1. All team members had the first meeting with a Supervisor Derek, Co-supervisors Brian and Maryam
2. The basic idea and various applications were introduced by Derek
3. Discuss about previous attempts and further exploration on the meeting
4. Research the topic about authorship detection and data mining
5. Review the researches of past year students

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Further study on the past researches
2. Search the proper algorithms
3. Have a group meeting with the other members Kai and Zhaokun

Kai He

Progress and Status This Week

1. Met with a Supervisor Derek, Co-supervisors Brian and Maryam.
2. The supervisors introduced the concept of this project and discuss the outcome from last year project students
3. Research on authorship detection
4. Study the previous algorithms

Plan and Goals for Next Week

1. Literature search training will be held next week
2. Have a meeting with team members
3. Research on various methods
4. Read papers on authorship detection

Zhaokun Wang

Progress and Status This Week

1. Fist meeting with Derek and Brian and other group member Kai and Yan.

2. Derek and Brian introduced the outline and background about this project

3. Based on previous year researches, Derek gave some suggestion about the following research.

4. Derek passed the previous research resources to us.

Plan and Goals for Next Week

1. Read through and understand previous research report.

2. Research on controversy.

3. Research on various methods.

4. Prepare the proposal seminar.

Semester 2, Week 2

Yan Xie

Progress and Status this week:

1. Review past year’s three methods: word frequency, word recurrence interval and trigram markov model
2. On-going researches
3. Attend a literature search training session with the other members
4. Discuss algorithms chosen for this project on the meeting
5. Prepare the proposal seminar on week 3

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Modify the slides and send it to supervisors
2. Prepare the presentation
3. Analysis the chosen algorithms
4. Discuss the project management with the other members next meeting

Kai He

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Zhaokun Wang

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Semester 2, Week 3

Yan Xie

Progress and Status this week:

1. Complete the Gantt Chart, Work Breakdown Structure, Milestones, Budget and risk analysis with the other team members
2. Modifications on the slides of presentation
3. Prepare the presentation
4. Introduce the Common N-grams

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Research on SVM classifier for the algorithm Common N-grams used
2. Start to design the Common N-grams
3. Make stage one progress report template

Kai He

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Zhaokun Wang

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Semester 2, Week 4

Yan Xie

Progress and Status this week:

1. Work on the method of Common N-grams by using Java
2. Fully read paper of the algorithm and classifier
3. Discuss the design of Common N-grams with the other members
4. Delegate tasks of the stage one progress report to individual members

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Complete parts of Executive Summary, Previous Studies, Coding Requirements and Tasks on Stage Two Report on the stage one progress report
2. Modify Work Breakdown Structure, Risk Assessment, Milestones, Monitoring Scheme and Proposed Budget
3. Complete writing on Common N-grams and SVM
4. Write up the draft of the stage one progress report and send it to supervisors for feedback
5. Modification on stage one progress report until deadline

Kai He

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Zhaokun Wang

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Semester 2, Week 5

Yan Xie

Progress and Status this week:

1. Done my allocated parts of the stage one report
2. Attend a group weekly meeting within the team and discuss uncompleted sections
3. Help formatting
4. Send the report draft to supervisors
5. Modify the report after getting feedback from supervisors

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Develop the method of Common N-grams
2. Read papers
3. Learn to use SVM

Kai He

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Zhaokun Wang

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Semester 2, Week 6

Yan Xie

Progress and Status this week:

1. Read the papers of the algorithm of Common N-grams
2. Have a big structure of programming Common N-grams
3. Review paper of SVM
4. The classifier SVM – still consider how to use the produced output text file as the input of the SVM
5. Participate the group meeting

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Discuss the code with the team
2. Coding on Common N-grams
3. Design SVM

Kai He

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Zhaokun Wang

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Semester 2, Week 7

Yan Xie

Progress and Status this week:

1. Discuss the Common N-grams problems with the other members
2. Finish about 50% of the code for data extraction using Common N-grams
3. Have a group meeting with the other two members reporting my current progress of extraction method of Common N-grams
4. Introduce the stage two report

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Continue coding of Common N-grams
2. Participate the meeting about stage two report with the other members
3. Try to figure out how to use SVM function in MATLAB

Kai He

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Zhaokun Wang

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Semester 2, Week 8

Yan Xie

Progress and Status this week:

1. Coding of Common N-grams
2. Discuss the project management
3. Investigation on SVM in MATLAB
4. Participate a meeting discuss how to apply the generate data to the classifier

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Complete software coding v1.0 at the end of Week 11
2. Start to write the stage two report
3. Review SVM from previous attempt

Kai He

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Zhaokun Wang

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Semester 2, Week 9

Yan Xie

Progress and Status this week:

1. Add some new classes on the code of Common N-grams
2. Code modification
3. Weekly meeting with the other team members to report the progress of Common N-grams coding
4. Write parts of Project Objectives, Background, Algorithm Programming and Project Management on the stage two report
5. Get feedback of the stage one progress report from Brian

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Complete software coding v1.0 at the end of Week 11
2. Continue code modification
3. Testing

Kai He

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Zhaokun Wang

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Semester 2, Week 10

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Semester 2, Week 11

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Semester 2, Week 12

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Semester 1, Week 1

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Semester 1, Week 3

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Semester 1, Week 4

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Kai He

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See also

• Authorship detection: Who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews?
• Minutes of Meeting 2011: Who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews?
• Critical design review 2011: Who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews?
• Progress Report 2011: Who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews?
• Final report 2011: Who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews?
• Youtube Video Presentation 2011: Who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews?

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