Unmasking the Wordsmith: Revealing Author Identity through Reader Reviews

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Abstract

Traditional genre-based approaches for book recommendations face challenges due to the vague definition of genres. To overcome this, we propose a novel task called Book Author Prediction, where we predict the author of a book based on user-generated reviews’ writing style. To this aim, we first introduce the `Literary Voices Corpus’ (LVC), a dataset of Italian book reviews, and use it to train and test machine learning models. Our study contributes valuable insights for developing user-centric systems that recommend leisure readings based on individual readers’ interests and writing styles.

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@inproceedings{alzetta2023unmasking,
  title={Unmasking the Wordsmith: Revealing Author Identity through Reader Reviews},
  author={Alzetta, Chiara and Dell'Orletta, Felice and Fazzone, Chiara and Miaschi, Alessio and Venturi, Giulia},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it)},
  year={2023}
}