On 4/26/06, Neil Harris <usenet(a)tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:
A shared writing style, including the use of
characteristic idioms,
spelling mistakes and punctuation foibles, is often a dead giveaway in
these cases. It's hard to consistently disguise one's writing style
over a long period of time without serious effort. This is best spotted
by the experienced human eye -- at the moment, there's no automated
support for this kind of analysis in MediaWiki.
There were some interesting studies that found that a machine learning
based system could distinguish male from female authors based solely
on the writing style. Maybe this would be a good SoC project for a
computer science student?