@inproceedings{boriceanu-dinu-2026-style-signature,
    title = "Style as Signature: Profile-Based Authorship Verification of Mihai Eminescu{'}s Journalistic Corpus",
    author = "Boriceanu, Ioana-Roxana  and
      Dinu, Liviu",
    editor = "Alves, Diego  and
      Bizzoni, Yuri  and
      Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania  and
      Kazantseva, Anna  and
      Pagel, Janis  and
      Szpakowicz, Stan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th Joint {SIGHUM} Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature 2026",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.latechclfl-1.10/",
    pages = "102--110",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-373-9",
    abstract = "Authorship verification aims to assess whether a questioned text is stylistically compatible with an author{'}s known writings, a task that is particularly challenging in historical corpora with partial ground truth. We address this problem in the context of Mihai Eminescu{'}s journalistic corpus, a historically grounded collection comprising published articles, manuscripts, and texts of uncertain authorship. Using a profile-based framework with character n-grams and function words, we examine how stylistic compatibility behaves across different profile construction settings and temporal splits. The results show that character trigram profiles consistently accept verified texts while producing a small and stable set of rejections among disputed items, whereas function word profiles show near complete acceptance across the corpus. A qualitative analysis shows that rejected texts exhibit meaningful differences in discourse structure and communicative purpose. These findings illustrate how authorship verification can support literary scholarship through stable signals for close reading."
}