Social network users may wish to preserve their anonymity online by masking their identity and not using language associated with any particular demographics or personality. However, they have no control over the language in incoming communications. We show that linguistic cues in public comments directed at a user are sufficient for an accurate inference of that user’s gender, age, religion, d...

irony in literature is an art that reflects the underlying pain and heals the hidden anguish that it wants to use to heal its grief and remove its anguish through its opposite. hence, the pain felt by the writer or the poet and his inability to remove the causes of this pain is the motivation behind this irony that the poet creates. however, the motivation to resort to this method varies from e...

The paper deals with the one of the oldest and most traditional fields in quantitative linguistic, the concept of vocabulary richness. Although there are several methods for vocabulary richness measurement, all of them are influenced by text size. Therefore, the authors propose a new way of vocabulary richness measurement without any text length dependence. In the second part of the article, th...

The task of text segmentation is to automatically split a text document into individual subparts, which differ according to specific measures. In this paper, an approach is presented that attempts to separate text sections of a collaboratively written document based on the grammar syntax of authors. The main idea is thereby to quantify differences of the grammatical writing style of authors and...

Slant is one of the characteristics that make handwriting harder to process automatically than printed text. For this reason slant correction is a standard step in systems for processing written text. In this article I will present an algorithm for automatically correcting slant. It works by first segmenting the text into words using horizontal and vertical projection histograms. Each word is t...