| Challenge: | Authorship verification is the problem of inferring whether two texts were written by the same author. |
| Approach: | They propose a generalized unmasking approach which allows for authorship verification of short texts with high precision at an adjustable recall tradeoff. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves accuracies of 75–80% while allowing for easy adjustment to forensic scenarios that require higher levels of confidence. |
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