III ACKNOWLEDGMENTSIV TABLE OF CONTENTSV LIST OF FIGURESVIII LIST OF TABLESXI CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION1 1.1 MOTIVATION1

This paper presents a computational model of stylistic similarity between human motions that is statistically derived from a comprehensive collection of captured, stylistically similar motion pairs. In this model, a set of hypersurfaces learned by single-class SVM and kernel PCA characterize the region occupied by stylistically similar motion pairs in the space of all possible pairs. The propos...

The goal of this paper is to compare a set of distance/similarity measures, some motivated statistically, others motivated stylistically, regarding their ability to reflect stylistic similarity between texts. To assess the ability of these distance/similarity functions to capture stylistic similarity between texts, we have tested them in the two most frequently employed multivariate statistical...

In this contribution, we present a computational stylistic study of the French classic literature texts based on a data-driven approach where discovering interesting linguistic patterns is done without any prior knowledge. We propose an objective interestingness measure to extract meaningful stylistic syntactic patterns from a given author’s work. Our hypothesis is based on the fact that the mo...

The bifacially-flaked stemmed obsidian artifacts from Easter Island -known as mata’a -vary greatly in terms of the shape and form of their stems. The stem variability appears to be largely stylistic in nature as its variation does not affect the function of the tool and thus is free to change. Since performance is not a factor in structuring variation , patterns of similarity across stylistic c...

The goal of this paper is to compare a set of distance/similarity measures, regarding theirs ability to reflect stylistic similarity between authors and texts. To assess the ability of these distance/similarity functions to capture stylistic similarity between texts, we tested them in one of the most frequently employed multivariate statistical analysis settings: cluster analysis. The experimen...

The article is devoted to the description of main types and stylistic potential allusive elements in novel “Chocolat” by contemporary British author Joanne Harris. Allusion as a device considered context theory intertextuality interpreted one leading methods reproducing "another voice" literary text. concludes that allusion distinguished conscious use requires unambiguous understanding interpre...

Linguistic style conveys the social context in which communication occurs and defines particular ways of using language to engage with the audiences to which the text is accessible. In this work, we are interested in the task of stylistic transfer in natural language generation (NLG) systems, which could have applications in the dissemination of knowledge across styles, automatic summarization ...

In this paper, we present a novel method for editing stylistic human motions. We represent styles as differences between stylistic motions and introduced neutral motions, including timing differences and spatial differences. Timing differences are defined as time alignment curves, while spatial differences are found by a machine learning technique: Independent Feature Subspaces Analysis, which ...

Program authorship attribution—identifying a programmer based on stylistic characteristics of code—has practical implications for detecting software theft, digital forensics, and malware analysis. Authorship attribution is challenging in these domains where usually only binary code is available; existing source code-based approaches to attribution have left unclear whether and to what extent pr...