In this paper, we describe the participation of the Natural Language Processing Lab of the
University of Ottawa in the author profiling shared task at PAN 2018. We present our …

While vast amounts of personal data are shared daily on public online platforms and used
by companies and analysts to gain valuable insights, privacy concerns are also on the rise …

Authorship identification remains a highly topical research problem in computational text
analysis, with many relevant applications in contemporary society and industry. In this …

Creating systems that can interpret and manage the ambiguity and subjectivity of the
representation and retrieval of information is one of the issues facing information systems …

The likelihood ratio paradigm for quantifying the strength of evidence has been researched
in many fields of forensic science. Within this paradigm, score-based approaches for …

Nowadays, social media like Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and LinkedIn are considered the
most used sources of information, while at the same time being the most visited and most …

The evolution of social media users' behavior over time complicates user-level comparison
tasks such as verification, classification, clustering, and ranking. As a result, na\" ive …

Abstract The Style Change Detection task is very important in the area of authorship
profiling, having one of its main applications in plagiarism detection. Specifically, the goal of …

Digital text forensics aims at examining the originality and credibility of information in
electronic documents and, in this regard, to extract and analyze information about the …

A series of social media posts on 4chan then 8chan, signed under the pseudonym 'Q',
started a movement known as QAnon, which led some of its most radical supporters to …