Feature instability as a criterion for selecting potential style markers

Moshe Koppel; Navot Akiva; Ido Dagan

doi:10.1002/asi.20428

Feature instability as a criterion for selecting potential style markers

Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, Ido Dagan

Department of Computer Science

Bar-Ilan University

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1519-1525
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Volume	57
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20428
State	Published - Sep 2006

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