Answers.Body: <p>The term you are looking for is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry" rel="nofollow noreferrer">stylometry</a>, which is related to a technique in forensic linguistics called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writeprint" rel="nofollow noreferrer">writeprint analysis</a>. There are many different techniques to perform stylometric analysis, from the very basic 5-feature analysis classifying features such as the lexicon and idiosyncrasies unique to a person to more complex analysis utilizing neural networks and machine learning. Searching online for research papers focusing on stylometry should assist you in finding the best technique for the job.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I needed to make a system for recognizing people based on hundreds of texts by finding similarities in their written text grammatically or similarities between words they choose for writing. I don't want it so accurate, but I wanted to know if it is possible.</p>
  <p>For example, finding one person with two accounts or more on a forum or something in that case (texts already gathered). I'm just wondering if it's possible and what field should I research for.</p>
  
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Title: Is it possible to recognise a person based on what they have written?
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ThreadText: # Is it possible to recognise a person based on what they have written?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-01-28)
  
  I needed to make a system for recognizing people based on hundreds of texts by finding similarities in their written text grammatically or similarities between words they choose for writing. I don't want it so accurate, but I wanted to know if it is possible.
  
  For example, finding one person with two accounts or more on a forum or something in that case (texts already gathered). I'm just wondering if it's possible and what field should I research for.
  
  **Tags:** natural-language-processing, reference-request, computational-linguistics
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-01-28. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  The term you are looking for is [stylometry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry), which is related to a technique in forensic linguistics called [writeprint analysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writeprint). There are many different techniques to perform stylometric analysis, from the very basic 5-feature analysis classifying features such as the lexicon and idiosyncrasies unique to a person to more complex analysis utilizing neural networks and machine learning. Searching online for research papers focusing on stylometry should assist you in finding the best technique for the job.
  
  
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