✦ LIBER ✦
Feature instability as a criterion for selecting potential style markers
✍ Scribed by Moshe Koppel; Navot Akiva; Ido Dagan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Volume
- 57
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1532-2882
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
We introduce a new measure on linguistic features, called stability, which captures the extent to which a language element such as a word or a syntactic construct is replaceable by semantically equivalent elements. This measure may be perceived as quantifying the degree of available “synonymy” for a language item. We show that frequent, but unstable, features are especially useful as discriminators of an author's writing style.