The Topic Confusion Task - EMNLP 2021 (Findings)

1. Cross Topic/commandline__.txt contains commands to run the experiments from cmd.

2. There might be additional packages that should be installed, such as the StanfordNLP tokenizer, and scikit-learn.

Cross-Topic Authorship Attribution

Same-Topic	Cross-Topic	Topic Confusion

The Topic Confusion Task

1. Topic confusion/commandline.txt contains commands to run the experiments from cmd.

2. Topic confusion/main.py has all the baselines/methods from the paper to create Table 2. However, certain sections should be commented out to avoid running the code for too long (magnitude of days).

3. Topic confusion/new_model.py Topic is used to create a new model.

Data

We do not have the rights to share the actual data as per the Guardian API policy. Detailed instructions to collect the data can be found here

Don't forget to cite our paper!

@inproceedings{altakrori2021topic,
    title={The Topic Confusion Task: A Novel Evaluation Scenario for Authorship Attribution},
    author={Altakrori, Malik and Cheung, Jackie Chi Kit and Fung, Benjamin CM},
    booktitle={Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021},
    pages={4242--4256},
    year={2021}
}