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Segmenting documents by stylistic character

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2005

NEIL GRAHAM ,
GRAEME HIRST  and
BHASKARA MARTHI
NEIL GRAHAM
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G4 e-mail: gh@cs.toronto.edu Present address: IBM Canada Ltd.
GRAEME HIRST
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G4 e-mail: gh@cs.toronto.edu
BHASKARA MARTHI
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G4 e-mail: gh@cs.toronto.edu Present address: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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Abstract

As part of a larger project to develop an aid for writers that would help to eliminate stylistic inconsistencies within a document, we experimented with neural networks to find the points in a text at which its stylistic character changes. Our best results, well above baseline, were achieved with time-delay networks that used features related to the author's syntactic preferences, whereas low-level and vocabulary-based features were not found to be useful. An alternative approach with character bigrams was not successful.

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Natural Language Engineering , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 397 - 415
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

An earlier version of parts of this paper was presented at the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Style Analysis and Synthesis, Acapulco, August 2003.