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Special Topic Section on Computational Analysis of Style
Feature instability as a criterion for selecting potential style markers
Article first published online: 14 JUL 2006
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20428
Copyright © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Volume 57, Issue 11, pages 1519–1525, September 2006
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How to Cite
Koppel, M., Akiva, N., Dagan, I. (2006), Feature instability as a criterion for selecting potential style markers. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 57: 1519–1525. doi: 10.1002/asi.20428
Publication History
- Issue published online: 8 AUG 2006
- Article first published online: 14 JUL 2006
- Manuscript Accepted: 24 MAR 2005
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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.