Innovative Approaches to Arabic Author Identification: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Classical and Deep Learning Approaches

The amount of written text on the internet has grown exponentially. When pairing that with the difficulties in sourcing the author of a text, a need emerges to be able to verify claimed author of text and attribute anonymous text to its author. These tasks fall under the umbrella of author identification, which is the process of identifying who, among a set of authors, wrote a given text. For many reasons, it is a challenging task in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This paper compares the performance of different machine learning and deep learning models on the task of Arabic author identification between. The results surprisingly show that most models failed except for the feedforward neural network and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).