Author identification

Author identification and influence tracing

Author profiling techniques are used to study traditional media and literature to identify the writing style of various authors as well as their written topics of content. Author profiling for literature is also been done to deduce the social networks of authors and their literary influence based on their bibliographic records of co-authorship. In cases of anonymous or pseudepigraphic works, sometimes the technique has been used to attempt to identify the author or authors, or determine which works were written by the same person.