What Makes your Writing Style Unique? Significant Differences Between Two Famous Romanian Orators

Mihai Dascalu; Daniela Gifu; Stefan Trausan-Matu

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45243-2_13

What Makes your Writing Style Unique? Significant Differences Between Two Famous Romanian Orators

Mihai Dascalu, Daniela Gifu, Stefan Trausan-Matu

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This paper introduces a novel, in-depth approach of analyzing the differences in writing style between two famous Romanian orators, based on automated textual complexity indices for Romanian language. The considered authors are: (a) Mihai Eminescu, Romania’s national poet and a remarkable journalist of his time, and (b) Ion C. Brătianu, one of the most important Romanian politicians from the middle of the 18th century. Both orators have a common journalistic interest consisting in their desire to spread the word about political issues in Romania via the printing press, the most important public voice at that time. In addition, both authors exhibit writing style particularities, and our aim is to explore these differences through our ReaderBench framework that computes a wide range of lexical and semantic textual complexity indices for Romanian and other languages. The used corpus contains two collections of speeches for each orator that cover the period 1857–1880. The results of this study highlight the lexical and cohesive textual complexity indices that reflect very well the differences in writing style, measures relying on Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) semantic models.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	8th Int. Conf. on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2016)
Subtitle of host publication	Computational Collective Intelligence
Editors	N.T. Nguyen, L. Illiadis, Y. Manopoulos, B. Trawinski
Publisher	Springer
Pages	143-152
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-45243-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45243-2_13
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	8th Int. Conf. on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2016): Computational Collective Intelligence - Halkidiki, Greece Duration: 28 Sept 2016 → 30 Sept 2016 https://conferences.cwa.gr/iccci2016/index.html

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Series	Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (subseries)
Volume	9875/9876

Conference

Conference	8th Int. Conf. on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2016)
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Halkidiki
Period	28/09/16 → 30/09/16
Internet address	https://conferences.cwa.gr/iccci2016/index.html

Keywords

Writing style
Textual complexity for Romanian language
Comparable corpora
Famous orators

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Dascalu, M., Gifu, D., & Trausan-Matu, S. (2016). What Makes your Writing Style Unique? Significant Differences Between Two Famous Romanian Orators. In N. T. Nguyen, L. Illiadis, Y. Manopoulos, & B. Trawinski (Eds.), 8th Int. Conf. on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2016): Computational Collective Intelligence (pp. 143-152). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45243-2_13

Dascalu, Mihai ; Gifu, Daniela ; Trausan-Matu, Stefan. / What Makes your Writing Style Unique? Significant Differences Between Two Famous Romanian Orators. 8th Int. Conf. on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2016): Computational Collective Intelligence. editor / N.T. Nguyen ; L. Illiadis ; Y. Manopoulos ; B. Trawinski. Springer, 2016. pp. 143-152 (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (subseries), Vol. 9875/9876).

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Dascalu, M, Gifu, D & Trausan-Matu, S 2016, What Makes your Writing Style Unique? Significant Differences Between Two Famous Romanian Orators. in NT Nguyen, L Illiadis, Y Manopoulos & B Trawinski (eds), 8th Int. Conf. on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2016): Computational Collective Intelligence. Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (subseries), vol. 9875/9876, pp. 143-152, 8th Int. Conf. on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2016), Halkidiki, Greece, 28/09/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45243-2_13

What Makes your Writing Style Unique? Significant Differences Between Two Famous Romanian Orators. / Dascalu, Mihai; Gifu, Daniela; Trausan-Matu, Stefan.
8th Int. Conf. on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2016): Computational Collective Intelligence. ed. / N.T. Nguyen; L. Illiadis; Y. Manopoulos; B. Trawinski. Springer, 2016. p. 143-152 (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (subseries), Vol. 9875/9876).

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Dascalu M, Gifu D, Trausan-Matu S. What Makes your Writing Style Unique? Significant Differences Between Two Famous Romanian Orators. In Nguyen NT, Illiadis L, Manopoulos Y, Trawinski B, editors, 8th Int. Conf. on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2016): Computational Collective Intelligence. Springer. 2016. p. 143-152. (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (subseries), Vol. 9875/9876). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-45243-2_13

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