If sophisticated natural language systems are to handle the full range of communication, then they must be able to account for the nuances and subtleties of linguistic style. A computational treatment of style would be highly advantageous to natural language understanding and generation, with particular relevance to intelligent computer-assisted language instruction and machine translation. The...

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...

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no doupt that the qur'anic expression contains secrets and aesthetics and artistic touches and images which show that the quran art intended to support this opinion that it isn’t people speech. so, this research is going to study sura «sad» using a stylistic approach, which focuses on data general linguistic and deals with the role of image and music sounds  and vocabularies in  sura, and ...

Tourism English belongs to the English for Specific Purpose (ESP) and it has its own stylistic features. This paper aims at analyzing the stylistic features of tourism English. Firstly, a large amount of authentic materials are collected from official tourism websites of Britain and the U.S., and then a corpus named Tourism English Corpus (TEC) is compiled. Freiburg-LOB Corpus of British Englis...

This article studies the relevance of an historical lexical analysis to the stylistic description of Modern Hebrew texts. The examination of the lexical make-up of two distinct genres – administrative language and folksong – reveals a correlation between the social functions of the corpora and their formal characteristics. The administrative corpus reflects the lexical structure of standard Mod...

Text classification is an important and challenging research domain. In this paper, identifying historical period and ethnic origin of documents using stylistic feature sets is investigated. The application domain is Jewish Law articles written in Hebrew-Aramaic. Such documents present various interesting problems for stylistic classification. Firstly, these documents include words from both la...

original article background and objectives: one type of electromagnetic fields, based on frequency range, is extremely low frequency (elf) fields. there are lots of reports about measuring elf- magnetic field (mf) in substations, power plants, cities, near high voltage power lines and etc. this study aimed to compare the difference between measurement of three-axis and single-axis probe mf mete...

i've included the sermon alhqhqih to study the stylistic fun, included the language of values ​​and then semantic, also included compositional values ​​and then synthetic, and also contained the interrelationships in the unity of text and dimensions in the context, or the so-called b (the appropriate flag), and the federation of text and dimensions were able to access to aesthetic ...

aptness, defined as how the vehicle is well able to cover the salient features of the tenor (e.g., oil is like liquid gold vs. a train is like a worm), is claimed to be an important factor in the preference for metaphors over similes, or vice versa. this study was an attempt to test for the supposed correlation between the perceived degree of aptness and a priori stylistic preference for metaph...