How Far Can Classical NLP Go? From Bag-of-Words to Stacking on Spooky Author Identification

Identifying the author of a sentence from gothic horror writers like Poe, Shelley, or Lovecraft is a powerful test of an NLP model's ability to recognize writing style over simple topic keywords. A series of classical models were built, progressing from a simple word-based baseline to richer representations using TF-IDF