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Feature instability as a criterion for selecting potential style markers

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  • Moshe Koppel
  • Navot Akiva
  • Ido Dagan

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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.

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  • Moshe Koppel & Navot Akiva & Ido Dagan, 2006. "Feature instability as a criterion for selecting potential style markers," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 57(11), pages 1519-1525, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:57:y:2006:i:11:p:1519-1525
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.20428
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    1. Sergiu Nisioi & Ana Sabina Uban & Liviu P. Dinu, 2022. "Identifying Source-Language Dialects in Translation," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-14, April.

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