Authorship detection: 2010 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.
• J. José Alviar, University of Navarra, Spain

Students

• Jie Dong
• Leng Tan
• Tien-en Phua

Weekly progress and questions

Semester 2, Week 1

Jie Dong

Progress and Status this week:

• 1. First meeting with Derek, Brian and Maryam and other group member Leng and Tien-en.
• 2. Derek, Brian and Maryam introduce us the basic idea of this data mining project
• 3. The idea of authorship detection was introduced
• 4. Several applications which data mining technique can be applied was mentioned
• 5. Researches of past year students were mentioned and Maryam sent us several past year research report together with the code
• 6. Research on the project, especially on SVM and some algorithms

Plan and Goals for new week:

• 1. Prepare for the proposal seminar.
• 2. Read research report from past years students.
• 3. Understand project handbook.

Leng Tan

Progress and Status This Week

1. the 1st meeting for the final year project was held with the supervisor, Prof Derek Abbot, co-supervisor, Dr Brian Ng, and Mrs Maryam, along with the team member.
2. the initial project scope was introduced and general idea of the aim of the project is discussed.
3. basic idea on the techniques of authorship detection is shown as well.
4. several ideas for the future application of this project is highlighted.
5. some hints on getting started was given which is to read Talis's final year report, which will be provided by Mrs Maryam.
6. the first milestone of the project which is the proposal seminar is reminded.

Plan and Goals for Next Week

1. fully read and understand Talis report.
2. have a brief look on the code that will be supplied by Mrs Maryam.
3. do some research on the background information of some controversial issues like the works on William Shakespeares, the Federalist Paper and the Letter to Hebrew.
4. read through the project handbook of 2010 to have a rough idea of all the milestones of the project focusing on the project seminar.

Tien-en Phua

Progress and Status this week:

1. Met up with project supervisor, Prof Derek Abbot, co-supervisor, Dr Brian Ng, and Mrs Maryam
2. Derek discuss the concept behind authorship detection
3. Derek explains about multi-dimensional graphs to link a disputed text to a known author.
4. Discuss about possible future applications. Brian suggested code plagiarism and possibly music.
5. Was provided by Maryam with other projects by students and started to go through the report by Talis.
6. Went through the FYP Project handbook

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Identity the methods Talis used in his report
2. Research on various methods
3. Read up on past works regarding authorship detection
4. Research on controvesy

Semester 2, Week 2

Jie Dong

Progress and Status this week:

Plan and Goals for new week:

Tien-en Phua

Progress and Status this week:

1. Identity the three methods that Talis applied in his project, namely Word Frequency, Word Recurrence and Trigram Markvo
2. Briefly understand how the three methods work
3. Identity the past works done by other researchers.
4. Identity three main controvesy namely the Federalist papers, Shakespeare plays and the Letter to the Hebrews

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Prepare for Project Proposal
2. Develop Gantt chart, project budget and risk analysis
3. Identity major milestones in project
4. Write up on controvesy
5. Further research on three methods

Leng Tan

Progress and Status This Week

1. identified 3 methods that was mentioned by Talis.
2. have a brief knowledge and information of the controversial issue.
3. have a brief idea on the upcoming propose seminar.

Plan and Goals for Next Week

1. research on SVM.
2. research on the backgroud history of the project
3. research on the different technique use before in history
4. prepare project proposal

Semester 2, Week 3

Jie Dong

Progress and Status this week:

• 1. We were introduced to Matthew and François-Pierre Huchet who are also participating in this project in Monday's meeting.
• 2. Came up with draft(first whole draft) of proposal presentation slides. Discuss about the role of each person.
• 3. Send slides to Brian and Matthew for feedback
• 4. modify our slides
• 5. Presentation on Thursday

Plan and Goals for new week:

• 1. Do more researches for three methods and SVM
• 2. Prepare for stage 1 design document

Leng Tan

Progress and Status This Week

1. rough draft slides on the past research have been done for the propose seminar.
2. a comparison list of the different technique is done.
3. start research on SVM that is to be added in the slides with the different technique
4. had a meeting with supervisors, and was introduced to Dr Matthew.
5. focus 100% on the propose seminar.

Plan and Goals for Next Week

1. have a more detailed review on the 3 methods.
2. read the criteria for the stage 1 design document.

Tien-en Phua

Progress and Status this week:

1. Prepare for project proposal
2. Developed gantt chart, project budget and risk analysis
3. Developed slides for milestones and controvesy
4. Research on SVM (Support Vector Machine)
5. Gain a better understanding on Word Frequency, WRI and Trigram Markvo

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Proceed to develop Stage 1 Design Document
2. Understand SVM
3. Develop Work Breakdown Structure
4. Delegate task to individual members
5. Read up on the other 4 reports

Semester 2, Week 4

Leng Tan

Progress and Status This Week

1. research on the 3 methods have completed.
2. fully read and understood the criteria for stage 1 design document.
3. have a brief meeting with group members to delicate the tasks in preparing the stage 1 design document.

Plan and Goals for Next Week

1. do a rough draft on the tasks that is allocated.
2. do a layout design for the document.

Tien-en Phua

Progress and Status this week:

1. Develop Work Breakdown Structure
2. Identity tasks required for Stage 1 Design Document
3. Broken down task and assigned to each member
4. In the process of development of Stage 1 Design Document
5. Further research on SVM and Word Frequency

Plan and Goals for new week:

1. Complete write up on Word Frequency and SVM
2. Complete Stage 1 Design Document
3. Coding and further research on Word Frequency
4. Read up on the other 4 reports

See also

• Authorship detection: Who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews?
• Critical design review 2010: Who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews?
• Final report 2010: Who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews?

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