We report here trends in the usage of "mood" words, that is, words carrying emotional content, in 20th century English language books, using the data set provided by Google that includes word frequencies in roughly 4% of all books published up to the year 2008. We find evidence for distinct historical periods of positive and negative moods, underlain by a general decrease in the use of emotion-...

stylistic is a branch of modern linguistic which surveys and analyzes the literary styles and technical methods. formalism school is one of important modern approaches in stylistics. russian formalisms believe that only the style (frame) can determine the meaning and the concept of the context. mahmoud darvish – palestinian poet – is one of the poets who worked in modernism style. he could pres...

We adapt the popular LDA topic model (Blei et al., 2003) to the representation of stylistic lexical information, evaluating our model on the basis of human-interpretability at the word and text level. We show, in particular, that this model can be applied to the task of inducing stylistic lexicons, and that a multi-dimensional approach is warranted given the correlations among stylistic dimensi...

Often, texts that have been written collaboratively do not \speak with a single voice." Eliminating stylistic incongruity, a di cult undertaking for both collaborative and singular writers, is the desired function of a software tool. This thesis describes the rst cycle of an iterative software development process towards meeting this goal. The user requirements are analyzed with respect to a mo...

Multiple versions of a document may need to be produced for diierent purposes and so may require quite diierent stylistic structures. This paper describes how we are building stylistic control into both natural language parsers (Pundit) and generators (Pen-man) to handle variations in hospital patient educational materials. Stylistic knowledge is formally represented in terms of a multi-level s...