A PREFACE TO COMPUTATIONAL STYLISTICS,
Abstract
Stylistic analysis, the study of patterns formed in the process of the linguistic encoding of information, is of importance to any major research focused upon or dependent upon the production or analysis of language. Through the use of computers, it should be possible to achieve more accurate detection and delineation of such linguistic patterns than has hitherto been the case; a quantitatively rigorous and intense study of pattern or style in natural language called computational stylistics. Computational stylistics has immediate, practical implications for work in areas ranging from machine translation and automatic abstracting to the social sciences and humanities. For adequate machine translations and automatic abstracts, algorithms of normative style for the textual genre being translated or abstracted must be available; the use of the computer for stylistic analysis will help make possible the recognition and specification of such algorithms. Stylistic analysis is also integral to the detection of idiosyncratic uses of language which distinguish one author from another. An author's style is his signature. Through analysis of individual style, researchers can find clues to unique characteristics in linguistic pattern. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 17, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0433513
Entities
People
- Sally Yeates Sedelow
- Walter A. Sedelow Jr.
Organizations
- System Development Corporation