We propose that textual ‘style’ should be best defined as ‘non-denotational meaning’, i.e., those aspects of a text’s meaning that are mostly independent of what the text refers to in the world. To make this more concrete, we describe a linguistically well-motivated framework for computational stylistic analysis based on Systemic Functional Linguistics. This theory views a text as a realisation...

In this contribution, we present a computational stylistic study and comparison of classic French literary texts based on a datadriven approach where discovering interesting linguistic patterns is done without any prior knowledge. We propose an objective measure capable of capturing and extracting meaningful stylistic syntactic patterns from a given author’s work. Our hypothesis is based on the...

I N T R O D U C T I O N Style in language is more than just surface appeaxance, on the contrary, it is an essential part of the meaning conveyed by the writer. A computational theory of style could be of great use in many computational linguistics applications. A system that is 'stylistically aware' could analyze the writer's stylistic intent and understand the complex interaction of choices th...

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...

Submitted: May 23, 2013; Accepted: Jul 3, 2013; Published: Jul 19, 2013 Abstract: This paper deals with the problem of estimating the finite population mean when some information on two auxiliary attributes are available. It is shown that the proposed estimator is more efficient than the usual mean estimator and other existing estimators. The study is also extended to two-phase sampling. The re...

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 ...