The Importance of Subjectivity in Computational Stylistic Assessment
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Computational processes with the ability to evaluate of the style of text have a variety of applications, including the detection of plagiarism, forensic linguistics, and authorship determination. This research is motivated by the need to help users of collaborative writing environments maintain a consistent style in their documents. While the matter of whether the style of a text is “correct” or not is open to debate (as well as whether the question is valid to begin with), it is generally agreed that an inconsistent melange of styles, as often found in collaboratively written texts, is undesirable. However, due to subjective nature of style, the stylistic problems of a text differ from problems of grammar or spelling, for which a variety of natural language processing techniques have already been developed. Before techniques can be developed to assist in the elimination of problems of stylistic inconsistency, several underlying issues dealing with the subjectivity of style must first be addressed.
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