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| Programming language(s) | Python |
| Exclusion compliant? | Yes |
LambdaBot (λBot or ΛBot for short) is a work-in-progress bot that detects sockpuppetry.
Algorithms
editLambdaBot α: General
editStylometry
editWe will use the Writeprints framework of Zhang et al. (2003) for feature extraction. A feature matrix is a -by-270 matrix, where is the number of authors.
Centrality
editCentrality measures the importance of one vertex to a network.[a] A vertex that has high centrality is a vital part of a network; removal would affect many vertices in terms of graph-theoric measures. We will use eigenvector centrality. Let be an adjacency matrix of our graph. Then we calculate the centrality vector as the corresponding vector for the maximum eigenvalue of .
Notes
edit- ^ The terms "network" and "graph" are used interchangeably.
Source
editThe source code is available at User:LambdaBot/Source.
References
edit- Brandes, Ulrik (2001). "A faster algorithm for betweenness centrality". The Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 25 (2): 163–177. doi:10.1080/0022250X.2001.9990249.
- Zhang, Rong; Li, Jiexun; Chen, Hsinchun; Huang, Zan (2006). "A framework for authorship identification of online messages: Writing-style features and classification techniques". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 57 (3): 378–393. doi:10.1002/asi.v57:3.