Retro Stylistic Transformations in Games

Stylistic Experiments in Informationretrieval

A discussion on various experiments to utilize stylistic variation among texts for information retrieval purposes. 1. Stylistics Texts vary in many ways. Authors make choices when they write a text: they decide how to organize the material they have planned to introduce; they make choices between synonyms and syntactic constructions; they choose an intended audience for the text. Authors will m...

Subjectivity in Stylistic Assessment

Changing The Virtual Self Avatar Transformations in Popular Games

During play, players of video games intentionally change their avatars, altering how the avatar looks, behaves, or can be manipulated. This process is integral to gameplay, forming an important component both of successful and enjoyable play. We present an activity theoretic analysis of qualitative data from players to provide a grounded description of avatar transformation in four popular game...

Stylistic Variation in Multilingual Instructions

Instructional texts have been the object of many studies recently, motivated by the increased need to produce manuals (especially multilingual manuals) coupled with the cost of translators and technical writers. Because these studies concentrate on aspects other than the linguistic realisation of instructions – for example, the integration of text and graphics – they all generate a sequence of ...

Stylistic Choice in Machine Translation

The study of comparative stylistics attempts to catalogue and explain the differences in style between languages. We describe a formal model of comparative syntactic stylistics that could be implemented in a machine translation system, enabling the system to make a more informed decision about possible translation choices and their potential stylistic effects. 1 Stylistic adequacy of translatio...