This brief paper gives an example of statistical stylistic experimentation and argues for more informed measures of variation and choice and more informed measures of readership analysis to be able to posit dimensions of textual variation usefully.

Social Network Analysis traditionally examines the graph of a communications network to identify key individuals based on the pattern of their interactions, but there is a limit to the level of detail which can be inferred from metadata alone. Message content is a richer source of data, and can provide an indication of the relationship between a pair of communicants. An individual’s language us...

Human walk is a complex phenomenon and is hence difficult to model, even if the walking process is something we do every day without even thinking of it. A broad field of applications can nowadays be found for human motion synthesis: 3D animation and video games, medical application, sports, artistic performances, to name a few. Several approaches can be taken for the modeling of complex and hi...

User attribute prediction from social media text has proven successful and useful for downstream tasks. In previous studies, differences in user trait language use have been limited primarily to the presence or absence of words that indicate topical preferences. In this study, we aim to find linguistic style distinctions across three different user attributes: gender, age and occupational class...

Irony is perceived through a complex interaction between an utterance and its context and serves many social functions such as to be sarcastic and to be humorous. The purpose of this paper is to explore what role linguistic style and contextual information play in the recognition of irony (i.e., assessing the degree of irony) and in the appreciation of ironic functions (i.e., assessing the degr...

This thesis proposal outlines the use of unsupervised data-driven methods for paraphrasing tasks. We motivate the development of knowledge-free methods at the guiding use case of multi-document summarization, which requires a domain-adaptable system for both the detection and generation of sentential paraphrases. First, we define a number of guiding research questions that will be addressed in ...

We present in this paper a technique for stylized reuse of view-dependent animation. We illustrate with an example, how can a unique animation be synthesized by reusing the view-dependent variations of the same character. We start with a sequence of sketches given by an artist, create the view-dependent model corresponding to the sketches and then generate the view-dependent animations by movin...

Attribution of anonymous texts, if not based on factors external to the text (such as paper and ink type or document provenance, as used in forensic document examination), is largely, if not entirely, based on considerations of language style. We will consider here the question of how to best deconstruct a text into quantitative features for purposes of stylistic discrimination. Two key conside...