  Authorship attribution (AA), which is the task of finding the owner of a
given text, is an important and widely studied research topic with many
applications. Recent works have shown that deep learning methods could achieve
significant accuracy improvement for the AA task. Nevertheless, most of these
proposed methods represent user posts using a single type of feature (e.g.,
word bi-grams) and adopt a text classification approach to address the task.
Furthermore, these methods offer very limited explainability of the AA results.
In this paper, we address these limitations by proposing DeepStyle, a novel
embedding-based framework that learns the representations of users' salient
writing styles. We conduct extensive experiments on two real-world datasets
from Twitter and Weibo. Our experiment results show that DeepStyle outperforms
the state-of-the-art baselines on the AA task.
