Author Obfuscation

Student: Isaev Leonid

Supervisor: Oleg Durandin

Faculty: Faculty of Informatics, Mathematics, and Computer Science (HSE Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Applied Mathematics and Information Science (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2020

Author`s obfuscation refers to a task of paraphrasing a given document in order to its writing style no longer matches style of the original author. Authors` have specific features by which they could be detected. The effective solution for authorship masking may guarantee human anonymity and help with copy-write tasks. This work is devoted to the modification and extension of existing methods which are used for author`s obfuscation, applying developed approach for Russian texts and evaluating the achieved results using metrics such as safe, sound and sensible.

Full text (added May 25, 2020)

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