Bad writing prospers in the humanities and social sciences, so we are spoilt for examples. In one famous case, Martha Nussbaum rounded on Judith Butler for her obscurity, arguing it was an insidious form of stylistic collaboration with the power structures targeted by her writings. Nussbaum’s review, ‘The Professor of Parody,’ raised the profile of a sentence already legendary as a result of Bu...

Formality is one of the most important dimensions of writing style variation. In this study we conducted an inter-rater reliability experiment for assessing sentence formality on a five-point Likert scale, and obtained good agreement results as well as different rating distributions for different sentence categories. We also performed a difficulty analysis to identify the bottlenecks of our rat...

With the advances of handwriting capturing devices and computing power of mobile computers, penbased Chinese text input is moving from character-based input to sentence-based input. This paper proposes a real-time recognition approach for sentence-based input of Chinese handwriting. The main feature of the approach is a dynamically maintained segmentation–recognition candidate lattice that inte...