竭尽全力:通过标点序列进行文本分析
Pull out all the stops: Textual analysis via punctuation sequences
AI总结:
本文研究标点序列作为文体计量学特征,探讨其能否区分作者、文学体裁及时间演变,提出无词文体分析的新视角。
摘要:
无论是享受喜爱作者的清晰散文,还是艰难阅读其他作家冗长笨重的絮叨(充满括号、破折号、复合形容词和牛津逗号),读者都会注意到风格特征不仅体现在词语选择和语法上,也体现在标点符号本身。事实上,不同作者的标点视觉序列会产生奇妙不同(且视觉上引人注目)的序列。在“文体计量学”(书面文本的定量分析)中,标点是一个很大程度上被忽视的风格特征。在本文中,我们考察了一个文学文档语料库中的标点序列,并提出以下问题:这些序列的性质是否是不同作者的显著特征?是否有可能根据标点序列区分文学体裁?作者的标点风格是否随时间演变?我们尝试在没有词语的情况下进行文体计量学分析,是否发现了有趣的东西,还是我们只是充满喧嚣与愤怒(毫无意义)?
英文摘要:
Whether enjoying the lucid prose of a favorite author or slogging through some other writer's cumbersome, heavy-set prattle (full of parentheses, em dashes, compound adjectives, and Oxford commas), readers will notice stylistic signatures not only in word choice and grammar, but also in punctuation itself. Indeed, visual sequences of punctuation from different authors produce marvelously different (and visually striking) sequences. Punctuation is a largely overlooked stylistic feature in "stylometry", the quantitative analysis of written text. In this paper, we examine punctuation sequences in a corpus of literary documents and ask the following questions: Are the properties of such sequences a distinctive feature of different authors? Is it possible to distinguish literary genres based on their punctuation sequences? Do the punctuation styles of authors evolve over time? Are we on to something interesting in trying to do stylometry without words, or are we full of sound and fury (signifying nothing)?
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