Writeprint

Writeprint is a term proposed by some forensic linguistics researchers to denote a set of distinguishing stylometric characteristics of a written text (writer invariants) such as "vocabulary richness, length of sentence, use of function words, layout of paragraphs, and key words" which allow one to identify its author (if it is written by a single author).

Metaphorically speaking, a writeprint is like a digital fingerprint. It is suggested that writeprints could provide forensics experts with a new tool for identifying criminals in a digital medium.

References

• From Fingerprint to Writeprint, Jiexun Li, Rong Zheng, Hsinchun Chen
• Application of Synergetic Neural Network in Online Writeprint Identification, Sanya Liu, Zhi Liu, Jianwen Sun, Lin Liu
• Writeprint: A Tool for Authorship Analysis
• Demo: COPLINK Authorship Analysis