Stylistic variation over 200 years of court proceedings according to gender and social class

Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb


Abstract
We present an approach to detect stylistic variation across social variables (here: gender and social class), considering also diachronic change in language use. For detection of stylistic variation, we use relative entropy, measuring the difference between probability distributions at different linguistic levels (here: lexis and grammar). In addition, by relative entropy, we can determine which linguistic units are related to stylistic variation.
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W18-1601
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Stylistic Variation
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June
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2018
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New Orleans
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Julian Brooke, Lucie Flekova, Moshe Koppel, Thamar Solorio
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Style-Var
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–10
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-1601
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10.18653/v1/W18-1601
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Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. 2018. Stylistic variation over 200 years of court proceedings according to gender and social class. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Stylistic Variation, pages 1–10, New Orleans. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Stylistic variation over 200 years of court proceedings according to gender and social class (Degaetano-Ortlieb, Style-Var 2018)
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