Stylometry

Computational analysis of writing style through linguistic features—including lexical patterns, syntax, readability measures, and stylistic choices. Stylometry has applications in authorship verification, deception detection, and content classification.

Key papers and articles

• Potthast et al. (2017) — A Stylometric Inquiry into Hyperpartisan and Fake News: Applies stylometric features (n-grams, POS tags, readability indices, dictionary-based features) to distinguish hyperpartisan from mainstream news and to detect satire; adapts Unmasking technique for style category analysis