APPLICATION-Specific Features

APPLICATION-Specific Features

1. examples of text domain

   • e-mail messages
   • online forum messages

2. can define application -specific measures to better present nuances of style in given text domain

3. to define structural measures in order to quantify the authorial style

4. Structural measures

   • the use of greeting and farewell in messages
   • accurate tool are acquired to extract these features
   • can only be define in given text genres
   • use of identation
   • paragraph length
   • type of signature
   • HTML text distribution
     • font color counts
     • font size counts
   • use of greetings and farewell in messages

5. Content-specific information

   • in particular text domain, content-specific keywords can be used to capture the properties of author's style
   • more reliable in cross-topic text
   • may define certain words that frequently used within the topic/genre
   • may reveal some authorial choices for candidates authors with same thematic area

6. Language-specific information

   • have to define manually
   • can be very effective when dealing with certain text genre
   • E.g.: verbal endings in certain languages