26 Oct 2004
CS 5244: DL Extended Services
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Discriminant analysis for text genres
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Karlgren and Cutting (94)
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Same text genre categories as Biber
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Simple count and average metrics
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Discriminant analysis (in SPSS)
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64% precision over four categories
Adverb
Character
Long word (> 6 chars)
Preposition
2
nd
person pronoun
Therefore
1
st
person pronoun
Me
I
Sentence
Some count features
Other features
Words per sentence
Characters per word
Characters per sentence
Type / Token Ratio