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O2D2: Out-Of-Distribution Detector to Capture Undecidable Trials in Authorship Verification

30 Jun 2021arXiv:2106.15825archive 2025-07-28

Benedikt Boenninghoff, Robert M. Nickel, Dorothea Kolossa

The PAN 2021 authorship verification (AV) challenge is part of a three-year strategy, moving from a cross-topic/closed-set AV task to a cross-topic/open-set AV task over a collection of fanfiction texts. In this work, we present a novel hybrid neural-probabilistic framework that is designed to tackle the challenges of the 2021 task. Our system is based on our 2020 winning submission, with updates to significantly reduce sensitivities to topical variations and to further improve the system's calibration by means of an uncertainty-adaptation layer. Our framework additionally includes an out-of-distribution detector (O2D2) for defining non-responses. Our proposed system outperformed all other systems that participated in the PAN 2021 AV task.

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