The identification of stylistic inconsistency is a challenging task relevant to a number of genres, including literature. In this work, we carry out stylistic segmentation of a well-known poem, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, which is traditionally analyzed in terms of numerous voices which appear throughout the text. Our method, adapted from work in topic segmentation and plagiarism detection, p...

Most text analysis and retrieval work to date has focused on determining the topic of a text, what it is about. However, a text also contains much useful information in its style, or how it is written. This includes information about its author, its purpose, feelings it is meant to evoke, and more. This paper addresses the problem of classifying texts by style (along several different dimension...

This paper describes our approaches to Native Language Identification (NLI) for the NLI shared task 2013. NLI as a sub area of author profiling focuses on identifying the first language of an author given a text in his second language. Researchers have reported several sets of features that have achieved relatively good performance in this task. The type of features used in such works are: lexi...

Instructional texts have been the object of many studies recently, motivated by the increased need to produce manuals (especially multilingual manuals) coupled with the cost of translators and technical writers. Because these studies concentrate on aspects other than the linguistic realisation of instructions – for example, the integration of text and graphics – they all generate a sequence of ...

This paper presents the Kazakh Language Corpus (KLC), which is one of the first attempts made within a local research community to assemble a Kazakh corpus. KLC is designed to be a large scale corpus containing over 135 million words and conveying five stylistic genres: literary, publicistic, official, scientific and informal. Along with its primary part KLC comprises such parts as: (i) annotat...

Feature extraction is a common problem in statistical pattern recognition. It refers to a process whereby a data space is transformed into a feature space that, in theory, has exactly the same dimension as the original data space. However, the transformation is designed in such a way that the data set may be represented by a reduced number of "effective" features and yet retain most of the intr...

This chapter examines the research on sex differences and gender identification in computer-mediated interaction (CMI), and presents a pilot study of synchronous, anonymous, one-to-one interactions, to understand the extent to which a person’s “real life” sex can be identified in CMIs as well as the stylistic and linguistic cues that “mark” someone as “male” or “female.” Although previous resea...

This paper displays the ideological positioning as found in Rudyard Kipling’s poem If. It is a published 1910. presents embedded ideologies and shows how poet used available linguistic resources to achieve his goal. The models of analysis adopted are Critical Stylistics proposed by Lesley Jeffries (2010) Stylistic Analysis submitted McIntyre (2010). aims at identifying poet’s beliefs show that ...