Person identification from text and speech genre samples

Abstract

In this paper, we describe experiments conducted on identifying a person using a novel unique correlated corpus of text and audio samples of the person's communication in six genres. The text samples include essays, emails, blogs, and chat. Audio samples were collected from individual interviews and group discussions and then transcribed to text. For each genre, samples were collected for six topics. We show that we can identify the communicant with an accuracy of 71% for six fold cross validation using an average of 22,000 words per individual across the six genres. For person identification in a particular genre (train on five genres, test on one), an average accuracy of 82% is achieved. For identification from topics (train on five topics, test on one), an average accuracy of 94% is achieved. We also report results on identifying a person's communication in a genre using text genres only as well as audio genres only.