TY - GEN
T1 - Informality judgment at sentence level and experiments with formality score
AU - Lahiri, Shibamouli
AU - Mitra, Prasenjit
AU - Lu, Xiaofei
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Formality and its converse, informality, are important dimensions of authorial style that serve to determine the social background a particular document is coming from, and the potential audience it is targeted to. In this paper we explored the concept of formality at the sentence level from two different perspectives. One was the Formality Score (F-score) and its distribution across different datasets, how they compared with each other and how F-score could be linked to human-annotated sentences. The other was to measure the inherent agreement between two independent judges on a sentence annotation task. It gave us an idea how subjective the concept of formality was at the sentence level. Finally, we looked into the related issue of document readability and measured its correlation with document formality.
AB - Formality and its converse, informality, are important dimensions of authorial style that serve to determine the social background a particular document is coming from, and the potential audience it is targeted to. In this paper we explored the concept of formality at the sentence level from two different perspectives. One was the Formality Score (F-score) and its distribution across different datasets, how they compared with each other and how F-score could be linked to human-annotated sentences. The other was to measure the inherent agreement between two independent judges on a sentence annotation task. It gave us an idea how subjective the concept of formality was at the sentence level. Finally, we looked into the related issue of document readability and measured its correlation with document formality.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-19437-5_37
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-19437-5_37
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952269391
SN - 9783642194368
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 446
EP - 457
BT - Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 12th International Conference, CICLing 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2011
Y2 - 20 February 2011 through 26 February 2011
ER -