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Master's Thesis: Robustness of Authorship Verification against Adversarial Obfuscation

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Location 📍 Darmstadt, Germany
Posted 📅 June 08, 2026
Work Type ⏰ Full-time

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Background/Motivation: Authorship verification (AV) is used in areas such as forensics, plagiarism detection, and fake news detection to identify the true author of a text. The goal of authorship verification (AV) is to classify whether two or more texts were written by the same author (Y) or not (N). A major problem is that authors can intentionally obscure their writing style (adversarial obfuscation). Such attacks include, among other things, synonym replacements, paraphrasing, machine translations, or the use of language models for automatic rephrasing. These attacks often lead to AV systems making incorrect decisions, as superficial stylistic markers disappear. While current systems achieve high accuracy in controlled scenarios, there is a lack of systematic investigations...

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Employment Type
Full-time
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Category
Computer Occupations
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Work Arrangement
On-site
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Location
Darmstadt, Germany