The effectiveness of Euclidean distance and the Mahalanobis distance in the problems of identification of the text origin

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Authors: Shumskaya A. O.

Annotation: The article presents the effectiveness of Euclidean metric and the Mahalanobis distance in identification of the text origin. To calculate the metrics we used text features of original texts and texts generated on the basis of original texts. As a generation method the synonymy and Markovian chain method were used.

Keywords: euclidean distance, mahalanobis distance, text, authorship, automatically generated, identifying, text characteristics