The Stylist: a Pascal program for analyzing prose style
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Authors
Cool, Thomas C.
Subjects
Pascal program
Computational stylistics
Computer Aided Composition Instruction
Concordance
Computational stylistics
Computer Aided Composition Instruction
Concordance
Advisors
Wu, Thomas
Date of Issue
1987-06
Date
June 1987
Publisher
Language
en_US
Abstract
The Stylist is a Waterloo Pascal program that analyzes the style of English prose. A "style checker", The Stylist pertains to Computational Stylistics and Computer Assisted Composition Instruction (CACI). The Stylist creates an affective model of the text based upon the following characteristic of its component words: etymology, tangibility, difficulty, emotional connotation, and vigor. The Stylist then compares this model to the standards of fiction or nonfiction texts and reports results and recommendations to the user. The Stylist also creates a concordance of the user's input using a new data structure called a Concordance Search Tree (CST). A CST is a binary search tree with a linked list threaded through it recording the order of the used of each word. An inorder traversal of the tree, with a traversal of the linked list during each visit, creates a concordance. This thesis also reviews related literature and programs.
Type
Thesis
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Department of Computer Science
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
139 p.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.