A comprehensive ecologic survey of dietary, life-style, and mortality characteristics of 65 counties in rural China showed that diets are substantially richer in foods of plant origin when compared with diets consumed in the more industrialized, Western societies. Mean intakes of animal protein (about one-tenth of the mean intake in the United States as energy percent), total fat (14.5% of ener...

This paper covers the automated assessment of essays. Such marking requires the assessment of style, and where appropriate the assessment of content. The first part of this paper describes the assessment of style; while the second part proceeds to describe the assessment of content. Style The methodology used to assess style is based on a set of ‘common’ metrics, and requires some initial calib...

Multimedia style sheet systems uniformly use a constraint-based model of layout. Constraints provide a uniform mechanism for all aspects of style management and layout and are better-suited to non-textual media than ow models. We have developed a prototype style sheet system, Proteus, and have used it with a variety of document types, including program source code. This work has exposed a criti...

A critical problem in the design of editors for structured documents is that of style control, i.e. mapping the logical elements of the documents to their physical appearance on pages. This paper presents a novel approach to style control, used in the Quill document editing system that has been prototyped at the IBM Almaden Research Center. In our approach, the style control mechanism is an int...

This work investigates style and topic aspects of language in online communities: looking at both utility as an identifier of the community and correlation with community reception of content. Style is characterized using a hybrid word and part-of-speech tag n-gram language model, while topic is represented using Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Experiments with several Reddit forums show that styl...

The idea of style transfer has largely only been explored in image-based tasks, which we attribute in part to the specific nature of loss functions used for style transfer. We propose a general formulation of style transfer as an extension of generative adversarial networks, by using a discriminator to regularize a generator with an otherwise separate loss function. We apply our approach to the...

SRI collected a corpus to study how spontaneous speech differs from other types of speech. The corpus was collected in two parts: (1) a spontaneous Switchboard-style conversation on an assigned topic, and (2) a reading session in which participants read transcripts of their conversation from part 1. Experiments were conducted on sentences with identical transcripts that varied in speaking style...