naqib al-mamalek shirazi, the court storyteller of naser al-din shah, has composed two tales: amir arsalan and malek jamshid. naqib created amir arsalan for naser al-din shah and retold it to him frequently, but he composed malek jamshid in a different condition. this essay attempts to study stylistic differences between the two texts. the goal is to show the role of textural factors and the ci...

In this paper we present a new approach to controlling the behaviour of a natural language generation system by correlating internal decisions taken during free generation of a wide range of texts with the surface stylistic characteristics of the resulting outputs, and using the correlation to control the generator. This contrasts with the generate-andtest architecture adopted by most previous ...

Formulations of the essential commitment of the etiological theory of functions have varied significantly, with some individual authors’ formulations even varying from one place to another. The logical geography of these various formulations is different from what is standardly assumed; for they are not stylistic variants of the same essential commitment, but stylistic variants of two non-equiv...

Writing style allows NLP tools to adjust to the traits of an author. In this paper, we explore the relation between stylistic and syntactic features and authors’ age and income. We confirm our hypothesis that for numerous feature types writing style is predictive of income even beyond age. We analyze the predictive power of writing style features in a regression task on two data sets of around ...

The experimental filmmaker James Benning has a unique way of approaching American life through radical film language. My paper addresses the question how material culture and design appear in Benning’s early work. A recurring feature is his preference for depiction landscapes, buildings, objects, vehicles over human characters that support viewer identification mainstream documentaries. In firs...

In this paper, we investigate group decision making problems with multiple types of linguistic preference relations. The paper has two parts with similar structures. In the first part, we transform the uncertain additive linguistic preference relations into the expected additive linguistic preference relations, and present a procedure for group decision making based on multiple types of additiv...

Intrinsic plagiarism detection is a sub-task of authorship identification in which outlier chunks must be detected solely on the basis of stylistic differences from the main body of the text. We present a first attempt at utilizing words that appear infrequently in a text as stylistic markers for distinguishing outlier chunks in the text. In the first phase of our method we cluster chunks of te...

This paper describes a thesis exploring how computer programs can collaborate as equals in the artistic creative process. The proposed system, CoCo Sketch, encodes some rudimentary stylistic rules of abstract sketching and music theory to contribute supplemental lines and music while the user sketches. We describe a three-part research method that includes defining rudimentary stylistic rules f...