Linguistic Profiling of Texts Across Textual Genres and Readability Levels. An Exploratory Study on Italian Fictional Prose
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In this paper we present a case study focusing on the literature genre, in particular on Italian fictional prose, aimed at identifying the features characterizing this text type. Identified features were tested in two classification tasks, i.e. by genre and by readability, with promising results. Interestingly, the same multi–level set of linguistic features turned out to reliably capture variation within and across textual genres.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013