Browsing by Subject "stylometry"
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A Diachronic Corpus for Literary Style Analysis
(2018)This research presents a resource for diachronic style analysis in particular the analysis of literary authors over time. Temporal style analysis has received comparatively little attention over the past years in spite of ... -
Following the Trail of Source Languages in Literary Translations
(Springer, 2014)We build on past research in distinguishing English translations from originally English text, and in guessing the source language where the text is deemed to be a translation. We replicate an extant method in relation to ... -
Nouns and Verbs in Professional Reporting of Extreme Events
(2019)This corpus-based study tested whether linguistic devices that can evoke negative emotions are featured in Terrorist Attack news articles to a greater extent, in comparison to articles on Natural Disasters and Human ... -
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 ... -
Temporal predictive regression models for linguistic style analysis
(2018)This study focuses on modelling general and individual language change over several decades. A timeline prediction task was used to identify interesting temporal features. Our previous work achieved high accuracy in ... -
Towards the automatic detection of the source language of a literary translation
(ACL, 2012)Experiments on the detection of the source language of literary translations are described. Two feature types are exploited, n-gram based features and document-level statistics. Cross- validation results on a corpus of ...