--- license: cc-by-nc-2.0 task_categories: - text-classification language: - en --- # Dataset Card for Dataset Name Dataset for authorship verification, comprised of 12 cleaned, modified, open source authorship verification and attribution datasets. ## Dataset Details Code for cleaning and modifying datasets can be found in [https://github.com/swan-07/authorship-verification/blob/main/Authorship_Verification_Datasets.ipynb](url) and is detailed in paper. Datasets used to produce the final dataset are: 1. Reuters50 @misc{misc_reuter_50_50_217, author = {Liu,Zhi}, title = {{Reuter_50_50}}, year = {2011}, howpublished = {UCI Machine Learning Repository}, note = {{DOI}: https://doi.org/10.24432/C5DS42} } License: (CC BY 4.0) 2. The Blog Authorship Corpus @misc{misc_blog_authorship_corpus, author = {J. Schler, M. Koppel, S. Argamon and J. Pennebaker}, title = {{Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging}}, year = {2006}, howpublished = {2006 AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches for Analyzing Weblogs}, note = {https://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~schlerj/schler_springsymp06.pdf} } License from https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/rtatman/blog-authorship-corpus: The corpus may be freely used for non-commercial research purposes. 3. Victorian @misc{misc_victorian_era_authorship_attribution_454, author = {Gungor,Abdulmecit}, title = {{Victorian Era Authorship Attribution}}, year = {2018}, howpublished = {UCI Machine Learning Repository}, note = {{DOI}: https://doi.org/10.24432/C5SW4H} } License: (CC BY 4.0) 4. arXiv @misc{misc_arXiv_100authors_comp_sci, author = {Moreo, Alejandro}, title = {{arXiv abstracts and titles from 1,469 single-authored papers (100 unique authors) in computer science }}, year = {2022}, howpublished = {Zenodo}, note = {{DOI}: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7404702} } License: (CC BY 4.0) 5. DarkReddit @article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2112-05125, author = {Andrei Manolache and Florin Brad and Elena Burceanu and Antonio Barbalau and Radu Tudor Ionescu and Marius Popescu}, title = {Transferring BERT-like Transformers' Knowledge for Authorship Verification}, journal = {CoRR}, volume = {abs/2112.05125}, year = {2021}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05125}, eprinttype = {arXiv}, eprint = {2112.05125}, timestamp = {Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:51:48 +0100}, biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2112-05125.bib}, bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org} } @inproceedings{Kestemont2020OverviewOT, author = {Mike Kestemont and Enrique Manjavacas and Ilia Markov and Janek Bevendorff and Matti Wiegmann and Efstathios Stamatatos and Martin Potthast and Benno Stein}, editor = {Linda Cappellato and Carsten Eickhoff and Nicola Ferro and Aur{\'{e}}lie N{\'{e}}v{\'{e}}ol}, title = {Overview of the Cross-Domain Authorship Verification Task at {PAN} 2020}, booktitle = {Working Notes of {CLEF} 2020 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 22-25, 2020}, series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings}, volume = {2696}, publisher = {CEUR-WS.org}, year = {2020}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2696/paper\_264.pdf}, timestamp = {Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:12:48 +0100}, biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/clef/KestemontMMBWSP20.bib}, bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org} } License from https://github.com/bit-ml/Dupin/tree/main: not disclosed 6. British Academic Written English (BAWE) @misc{20.500.12024/2539, title = {British Academic Written English Corpus}, author = {Nesi, Hilary and Gardner, Sheena and Thompson, Paul and Wickens, Paul}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2539}, note = {Oxford Text Archive}, copyright = {Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-{NonCommercial}-{ShareAlike} 3.0 Unported License.}, year = {2008} } License from https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12024/2539: (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) 7. IMDB62 @article{seroussi2014authorship, title={Authorship attribution with topic models}, author={Seroussi, Yanir and Zukerman, Ingrid and Bohnert, Fabian}, journal={Computational Linguistics}, volume={40}, number={2}, pages={269--310}, year={2014}, publisher={MIT Press One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA journals-info~…} } License from https://umlt.infotech.monash.edu/?page_id=266: not disclosed 8. PAN11 @misc{misc_pan11-author-identification-corpora, author = {Argamon, Shlomo and Juola, Patrick}, title = {{PAN11 Author Identification: Attribution}}, year = {2011}, howpublished = {Zenodo}, note = {{DOI}: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3713245} } License: not disclosed 9. PAN13 @misc{misc_pan13-authorship-verification-test-and-training, author = {Juola, Patrick and Stamatatos, Efstathios}, title = {{PAN13 Author Identification: Verification}}, year = {2013}, howpublished = {Zenodo}, note = {{DOI}: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3715998} } License: not disclosed 10. PAN14 @misc{misc_pan14-authorship-verification-test-and-training, author = {Stamatatos, Efstathios and Daelemans, Walter and Verhoeven, Ben and Potthast, Martin and Stein, Benno and Juola, Patrick and A. Sanchez-Perez, Miguel and Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto}, title = {{PAN14 Author Identification: Verification}}, year = {2014}, howpublished = {Zenodo}, note = {{DOI}: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3716032} } License: not disclosed 11. PAN15 @misc{misc_pan15-authorship-verification-test-and-training, author = {Stamatatos, Efstathios and Daelemans Daelemans amd Ben Verhoeven, Walter and Juola, Patrick and López-López, Aurelio and Potthast, Martin and Stein, Benno}, title = {{PAN15 Author Identification: Verification}}, year = {2015}, howpublished = {Zenodo}, note = {{DOI}: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3737563} } License: not disclosed 12. PAN20 @Article{stein:2020k, author = {Sebastian Bischoff and Niklas Deckers and Marcel Schliebs and Ben Thies and Matthias Hagen and Efstathios Stamatatos and Benno Stein and Martin Potthast}, journal = {CoRR}, month = may, title = {{The Importance of Suppressing Domain Style in Authorship Analysis}}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14714}, volume = {abs/2005.14714}, year = 2020 } using the open-set unseen all split from @article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2112-05125, author = {Andrei Manolache and Florin Brad and Elena Burceanu and Antonio Barbalau and Radu Tudor Ionescu and Marius Popescu}, title = {Transferring BERT-like Transformers' Knowledge for Authorship Verification}, journal = {CoRR}, volume = {abs/2112.05125}, year = {2021}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05125}, eprinttype = {arXiv}, eprint = {2112.05125}, timestamp = {Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:51:48 +0100}, biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2112-05125.bib}, bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org} } @inproceedings{Kestemont2020OverviewOT, author = {Mike Kestemont and Enrique Manjavacas and Ilia Markov and Janek Bevendorff and Matti Wiegmann and Efstathios Stamatatos and Martin Potthast and Benno Stein}, editor = {Linda Cappellato and Carsten Eickhoff and Nicola Ferro and Aur{\'{e}}lie N{\'{e}}v{\'{e}}ol}, title = {Overview of the Cross-Domain Authorship Verification Task at {PAN} 2020}, booktitle = {Working Notes of {CLEF} 2020 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 22-25, 2020}, series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings}, volume = {2696}, publisher = {CEUR-WS.org}, year = {2020}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2696/paper\_264.pdf}, timestamp = {Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:12:48 +0100}, biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/clef/KestemontMMBWSP20.bib}, bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org} } License from https://github.com/bit-ml/Dupin/tree/main: not disclosed Datasets were cleaned, named entities were replaced with their general type in all except PAN14, PAN15, and PAN20, and datasets were restructured into dataframes with columns |text1|text2|same| where a value of 0 in same meant the two texts had different authors, while a value of 1 meant the two texts had the same author. All datasets were split into train/test/verification, keeping the splits if given (see paper for specifics) and otherwise using a 0.7:0.15:0.15 split.