Speech style accommodation refers to shifts in style that are used to achieve strategic goals within interactions. Models of stylistic shift that focus on specific features are limited in terms of the contexts to which they can be applied if the goal of the analysis is to model socially motivated speech style accommodation. In this paper, we present an unsupervised Dynamic Bayesian Model that a...

Automatic speaker recognition is an important technology for intelligence gathering, law enforcement, and audio mining. Conventional speaker recognition systems, which are based on independent short-term spectral samples, suffer from a lack of noise robustness and are unable to model a speaker’s idiosyncratic stylistic features. This paper describes “TalkPrinting”, a program of research aimed a...

E-mail has become, in recent years, due to the increasing use of the Internet, one of the most common, if not, the most important means of business and personal communication. At the end of the 20th century, e-mail was widely adopted as a means of communication between companies, replacing many of the functions of workplace memoranda. It is a main communication medium and the corporate world co...

Literature is a form of expression whose temporal structure, both in content and style, provides a historical record of the evolution of culture. In this work we take on a quantitative analysis of literary style and conduct the first large-scale temporal stylometric study of literature by using the vast holdings in the Project Gutenberg Digital Library corpus. We find temporal stylistic localiz...

We propose a novel method for interactive editing of motion data based on motion decomposition. Our method employs Independent Component Analysis to decompose motion data into meaningful components that capture different aspects of that motion. The user interactively identifies suitable components and manipulates them based on a proposed set of operations. In particular, the user can transfer c...

Whistleblowers and activists need the ability to communicate without disclosing their identity, as of course do kidnappers and terrorists. Recent advances in the technology of stylometry (the study of authorial style) or “authorship attribution” have made it possible to identify the author with high reliability in a non-confrontational setting. In a confrontational setting, where the author is ...

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...

The two main factors that characterize a text are its content and its style. Both of them can be used as categorization means. In this paper we present an approach to text categorization in terms of genre and author for Modern Greek. In contrast to hitherto stylometric approaches, we attempt to take full advantage of existing natural language processing (NLP) tools. To this end, we propose a se...

Linguistic combinations are referred to as a chain of words that associate with one another and form a semantic phrases, such as adjectival and noun. Innovation in this field is one of the main tasks of creative poetry. Shams's sonnets are of the prominent works of Persian literature and their composition is characterized by its stylistic features. In order to express his sublime and mystical t...

A number of independent authorship attribution studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of character n-gram features for representing the stylistic properties of text. However, the vast majority of these studies examined the simple case where the training and test corpora are similar in terms of genre, topic, and distribution of the texts. Hence, there are doubts whether such a simple and lo...