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Characterizing stylistic elements in syntactic structure

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

Much of the writing styles recognized in rhetorical and composition theories involve deep syntactic elements. However, most previous research for computational sty-lometric analysis has relied on shallow lexico-syntactic patterns. Some very recent work has shown that PCFG models can detect distributional difference in syntactic styles, but without offering much insights into exactly what constitute salient stylistic elements in sentence structure characterizing each authorship. In this paper, we present a comprehensive exploration of syntactic elements in writing styles, with particular emphasis on inter-pretable characterization of stylistic elements. We present analytic insights with respect to the authorship attribution task in two different domains.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEMNLP-CoNLL 2012 - 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference
Pages1522-1533
Number of pages12
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, EMNLP-CoNLL 2012 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: Jul 12 2012Jul 14 2012

Publication series

NameEMNLP-CoNLL 2012 - 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, EMNLP-CoNLL 2012
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period07/12/1207/14/12

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