Browsing by Subject "Corpus Linguistics"
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Aspects of linguistic ageing in literary authors across time
(2021)This work offers an investigation into linguistic changes in a corpus of literary authors hypothesised to be possibly attributable to the effects of ageing. In part, the analysis replicates an earlier study into these ... -
Author verification: basic stacked generalization applied to predictions from a set of heterogeneous learners
(2015)In this paper we present the system we submitted to the PAN 2015 competition for the author verification task. We consider the task as a supervised classification problem, where each case in a dataset is an instance. Our ... -
The discourse value of social signals at topic change moments
(2015)The dynamics of social interactions during human-human conversation have attracted the attention of many researchers aiming at improving the naturalness of automatic dialogue systems and creating socially aware machines. ... -
A Hedging Annotation Scheme Focused on Epistemic Phrases for Informal Language
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015)Most existing annotation schemes for hedging were created to aid in the automatic identification of hedges in formal language styles, such as used in scholarly prose. Language with informal tone, typical in much web ... -
ICE on Food: Talk related to foodways in the International Corpus of English
(2015)The frequency of occurrence of food verbs across ICE corpora is remarkably consistent, though ICE-CN is remarkably lower Food verbs favour light verbs, with decreasing frequency accounted for by semantic features: manner ... -
Linguistic Repetitions, Task-based Experience and A Proxy Measure of Mutual Understanding
(IEEE, 2017)The way dialogue partners collaborate to achieve a joint task is dependent on the way they construct a common ground of knowledge. Diverse conversational mechanisms are involved in developing a common ground, and repetition ... -
Stylochronometry: Timeline Prediction in Stylometric Analysis
(Springer, 2015)We examine stylochronometry, the question of measuring change in linguistic style over time within an authorial canon and in relation to change in language in general use over a contemporaneous period. We take the works ... -
Using Character N-Grams to Explore Diachronic Change in Medieval English
(2019)This paper applies character N-grams to the study of diachronic linguistic variation in a historical language. The period selected for this initial exploratory study is medieval English, a well-studied period of great ...